How to Use deride in a Sentence

deride

verb
Definition of deridenext
Synonyms for deridenext
  • After all, this is the country where private equity firms were once derided as locusts.
    — Dan Primack, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
  • There, McCoy began to deride me again for a subsequent story.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
  • Audiences derided video vixens, shaming them for making money by playing to the male gaze.
    — Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The activists pack the township’s tiny boardroom on the second Monday of every month to attempt to shame and deride Brannigan for her comments.
    — Zak Koeske, Daily Southtown, 11 July 2018
  • People who believed in Musk celebrated his generosity; people who didn’t derided the effort.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Even those who deride it can’t kill their own taste for it.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • When the first part of the novel came out, in 1605, it was derided as rubbish by the Madrid elite.
    — Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • While some may deride such programs as soft on crime, the Adams plan is smart on crime.
    — Charles Fain Lehman, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • And even though other people on the show might deride him for it, it’s done with so much love.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2022
  • Trump’s speeches, yet most of them could reject it, or even share it in order to deride or ridicule it.
    — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Hendren is a combative man of large ego who tends to deride foes.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2021
  • But this isn’t the time to be smug toward those who derided them, Sutton and others said.
    — Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Not long ago, such talk would have been derided as churlish.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • And the causes that the U.S. women are most derided on the right for supporting are racial justice and equal pay.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The genre as a whole was long derided as juvenile, the stuff of fantasy.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • When someone returned with a large kill to share, the norm was not to praise his generosity but to deride him.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • For many years, Apple was derided for the iPhone’s thick bezels — specifically, the iPhone 6, 6S, 7 and 8 — and the range could be a record breaker.
    — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Politicians and consumer groups deride the idea as just the latest corporate feint to gouge the public.
    — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In time, his opponents came to deride him as Nine-Finger.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • They are also often derided as pests and called rats with wings.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Posting emails questioning their choice to deride the people writing them is the last thing.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Some people derided them for testing on a postage stamp-size place.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2023
  • The film didn't just receive pans from critics, it was also derided by its cast.
    — Keith Langston and Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 May 2023
  • Of course, there are those quick to deride or dismiss actors like Penn stepping off the soundstage and into such roles.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Donald Trump and his allies found a new reason to deride Mitch McConnell.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Posting emails questioning their choice in order to deride the people writing them is the last thing.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Trump’s campaign, tooled to mock, deride, and defeat Biden, is scrambling to rethink their approach to the electoral map.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 July 2024
  • Some might deride that as a lack of originality, but at least he’s picked some darn good films from which to borrow.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • That information was derided by health groups in the U.K., where Vectura is based -- many of whom had protested the cigarette maker’s acquisition of the asthma inhaler company.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • However, agricultural and pest-control groups derided the measure as a potential public health issue that sidestepped the state’s regulatory process.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024

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