How to Use deride in a Sentence

deride

verb
Definition of deridenext
Synonyms for deridenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Had he been seen petting a horse, Dr. Urbiola said, he would have been derided.
    — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Other emails sent to Brand deride the weight and appearance of a female City Council member.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Despite the rhetoric, critics deride him as more pathetic than scary.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • After the Washington Post published a piece about the lawsuit, many on social media were quick to believe the claims and deride the chain as a bad actor.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2021
  • The two men never patched things up and spared no subsequent occasion to deride each other’s movies.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Sports talk radio filled the airwaves with criticism of the move again Friday while local columnists derided the trade.
    — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Trump, not Biden, had talked about airports during the Revolution; Biden had derided him for it.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Trump has denied wrongdoing and has derided the lawsuit as part of a partisan witch hunt.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Trump has derided both rivals but has continued to train most of his ire on DeSantis, a sign that he is focused mostly on the fight for Iowa.
    — Dave Goldiner New York Daily News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Often derided as resulting in beers that are flat and warm, that’s not actually the case.
    — Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Books about a man being brutally tortured, nailed to slabs of wood, and then left to dangle there for three days while onlookers openly mock and deride him.
    — Johanna Gohmann, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2022
  • With the Electronic Bard, Lem derides the worry that our own human creativity will be dwarfed.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024

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