to deride
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7.8
- verb
- /dɪˈraɪd/
- She felt hurt when her classmates began to deride her for wearing vintage clothes.
- much-derided
- often derided
- deride the idea
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Watch on YouTubeAll they, they dismiss language, they deride language, they denigrate it.
- All they, they dismiss language, they deride language, they denigrate it.
- For example, they will contemptuously and snobbly deride your pronunciation of something.
- It is forsaken by the surrounding languages, ignored, disparaged and derided by them, severed from authority.
- I'm not concerned of being cancelled or derided or criticized after having done a reasonably good job.
- All these big, as you know, Lem derided them as existential questions, but they really, and he said, and they're they're bigger questions than that.
- Mocking transparency as hats deride heads.
- One of the most derided, like hated characters on that show was his wife.
Examples
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The critics will deride the film for its lack of originality.
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The moderate Syrian resistance is often derided as being a completely fictitious entity.
Academic text (2015) -
Before you deride my offer...
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...they often derided him as...
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I didn't mean to deride your party.
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you find my relationship with MacArthur something to deride?
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There are more effective methods of dealing with Yankees than deriding them in public.
Fiction book (1992) -
Critical legal studies scholars deride rights by asserting that rights merely protect entrenched interests in society.
Academic text (1999) -
Critics on the left derided the idea as illogical and unworkable.
Academic text (1995) -
Americans don't have their tongues chopped off for speaking their minds and deriding their president, as in other nations.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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3.3
To say what is wrong with someone or something
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2.3
Laugh at someone or say things that make them feel embarrassed
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4.0
To strongly criticize someone or something publicly
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6.8
Publicly criticize someone or something strongly
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4.6
To make someone look silly in a mean way so others laugh at them
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6.5
To say or do things to show you do not respect someone
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5.0
To make someone or something seem not important
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6.8
To make someone feel less respected or important
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7.8
To say bad things about someone without a good reason to make them seem less important
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7.9
To say or write bad things about someone to harm them
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7.7
To speak badly about someone or something to show little respect
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5.5
To show dislike and no respect for someone or something
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8.2
To say angry, insulting things about someone or something
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9.3
To criticize someone publicly to make them feel ashamed
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7.6
Criticize someone or something, often in public
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8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
To make fun of someone in a cruel way
To say bad things about someone in public to make them feel ashamed
Antonyms
How Mocking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Deride comes from the Latin parts de- meaning 'down' and ridere meaning 'to laugh', and you can see the same root in ridicule. It originally meant to 'laugh down' someone, which is why to deride someone is to mock them or show contempt.