Derides

Word DERIDES
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Definitions and meanings of "Derides"

What do we mean by derides?

To harshly mock; ridicule.

To subject to ridicule contemptuously Urban Dictionary

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The word "derides" in example sentences

Palin derides the "enlightened elite," a tactic of American populists dating to Andrew Jackson. ❋ Unknown (2009)

McCain derides Obama for being wrong on the surge but has McCain admitted to being wrong on Iraq? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Palin derides ‘elites,’ but then says she rejects labels. » ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Tithing derides consumer Christianity, with its focus on what God can do for you,” Reid proclaims. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

The distinction between "between" and "among," for example, which he derides, is both logical and useful. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Sinclair should know that the people, the chronic joiners, the men who march in parades wearing feather duster hats, tripping over tin swords or the hems of nightshirts, will never forgive a man who derides their foolishness. ❋ Greg Mitchell (2010)

Where I'm writing now, nobody tells me what to do and nobody derides my blog just because it's a blog. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He derides Giffords as "fake," language more reminiscent of Holden Caulfield than Ayman al-Zawahiri. ❋ Daniel L. Byman (2011)

So don't worry if your family, for example, derides your belief in God. ❋ John Shore (2011)

Can a country that derides high achievers as "Uncle Toms", "acting white," or "out of touch" truly compete in a global economy? ❋ Curtis Valentine (2011)

The key to energy diversification is not biofuels, which Reynolds derides as "pork marinated in ethanol." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The financial incentives which he derides did fuel the Consumption that produced the Boom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Marshall's letter has taught me that, as a member of the "ultraorthodox" Jewish cohort he derides, I am responsible for inciting such hatred. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue" (Proverbs 11: 12). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The rape apologist babbles on about a US/Israel nuclear war and then derides others for their comments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my constituency, with big health needs and a history of patchwork GP provision, it has been the NHS management that the government so derides – in primary care trusts and the region-wide strategic health authority – that has driven forward the reorganisation of primary care, giving it higher standards and bringing it closer to the community. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In [the bible] story [Goliath] derided the [Israelite] until David showed up and killed him in battle. ❋ Gabriel McNair Nyamekye (2013)

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