How To Use Deride In A Sentence

Much derided, but with an unenviable job. Times, Sunday Times
He also derides M-theory - the idea that we live in multidimensional space.
The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
Copenhagen were described as the cleanest, while London, Paris and Rome were derided as the dirtiest. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the Letter 138

I didn't know you had such a word as 'subside' in your vocabulary," derided David Nesbit. Grace Harlowe's Problem
When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
Enterprise 2.0 is often derided as a buzzword enveloped in ivory-tower abstractions that obfuscate as much as enlighten.www. newsgator.com) today launched a new blog from the trenches of Enterprise 2.0 - yes, there are trenches - called "Everyday Enterprise 2.0," authored by Christy Schoon, the company's director of Enterprise 2.0 consulting. Undefined
He would mock and deride them relentlessly, not stopping until they cried.
Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided,and their confidences will be honored.
It is regularly derided as one of the worst songs in musical history, but it still gives me a lump in my throat and an ache in my heart.
The party was derided as totally lacking in ideas.
This comment was much derided at the time. Times, Sunday Times
Wherefore, such opinions and persuasions are gradually insinuated into the mind, and are admitted insensibly without opposition or reluctancy, being never accompanied at their first admission with any secular disadvantage; -- but these divine convictions by the word befall men, some when they think of nothing less and desire nothing less; some when they design other things, as the pleasing of their ears or the entertainment of their company; and some that go on purpose to deride and scoff at what should be spoken unto them from it. Pneumatologia
Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
Conservatives often deride Obama over remarks he made at a presser in April of 2009, in which he said that he believes in American exceptionalism "just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Nonstop idiocy about Obama and `American exceptionalism'
Critics derided the plot locations. Times, Sunday Times
The worst thing you could do would be to laugh at him or deride him.
A few approved highly of my conduct; while many not only blamed, but publicly derided me, for what they termed a ridiculous weakness. Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam.
In this, strangely, it resembles the derided Clinton bill, with its mandate on all employers to cover their workers.
The notion that bankers should have to swear an oath of ethical conduct, pledging to do no wrong, has been much derided. Times, Sunday Times
The liberals deride him as a turncoat while the right tentatively seeks to claim him.
All the other cable news netword deride John Stewart, but what they don't realize is that he is an incredibly intelligent person that has his finger on the pulse. BusinessWeek.com --
Wall Street has derided the decision to merge, giving the boards of both companies a sharp surprise.
Being a spoof on a spoof might be cleverish, but I suspect that the only audience it will find is the audience that it seeks to deride.
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But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
But economists and online critics derided the number as a political confection. Times, Sunday Times
Pop music, often dismissed and derided as lightweight, had changed the world. The Sun
This revolutionary approach was announced by a woman painter, Anita Malfatti, “the protomartyr of modernism,” whose forward-looking paintings in her second exhibition, in 1917, were derided by Monteiro Lobato He claimed that she simply contributed her own “-ism” in her paintings where a horse and rider fall over: “I call this genre topple-ism”. [Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade
Many of his contemporaries derided him as ‘a hesitating cow’ or ‘a bull with snail's horns.’
After visiting Ceylon, Dorrington settled near London, and published a misleading account of allegedly exotic colonial hard-ships as an orchardist, which Stephens in Australia exposed and derided. Archive 2009-04-01
Although some industry observers initially derided this type of service as a bandwidth waster, manufacturers have continued to tweak their offerings, which may put to rest many of those concerns.
This spiraea is common and sometimes derided because of this, but it is an easy-to-grow deciduous shrub with attractive reddish young leaves that mature to dark green and lovely deep carmine pink flowers from mid to late summer.
Those much derided experts have done rather a good job. Times, Sunday Times
He derided the 'euphoric' reaction of observers and news reports nationwide, saying he's 'never seen a superintendent receive less scrutiny than Chancellor [Michelle Rhee].' ... DeMorning DeBonis: July 27, 2010
Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see. On being a father
The 2009 Occhipinti SP68, a Sicilian red, won raves for the wine (bright red fruit, good acidity, soft tannins), but the label was derided as ugly and the alphanumeric name was deemed "cheesy" (never mind it's the road that runs by the winemaker's house). Judging a Wine by What It Wears
THE sight of a great ship on its side throws a whole new perspective on a topic that is often derided as deeply tedious: safety at work. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, the immutable laws of Fleet Street demanded that the paper's scoop be derided and its star witness dismissed as a fantasist.
So the fact that he headed the much derided London Underground must still carry with it a little sting of regret. Times, Sunday Times
Some did so out of a desire for an unabbreviated expression of their African heritage that could not be mistaken or derided as an allusion to the afro hairstyle. Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Black's Fine, Thanks: Writer Deborah Dickerson Pulls the Obama Race Card
The painter proved once again yesterday that, while critics might deride it, the public can't get enough of his work.
It has been derided by some critics as straying too far from historical fact in order to show a well-polished fiction.
The notion that bankers should have to swear an oath of ethical conduct, pledging to do no wrong, has been much derided. Times, Sunday Times
The disproportion between his new self-perception and his actual social status as an ordinary businessman and later as a derided cult leader was unbearable.
But though she and Barack Obama deride NCLB publicly, each endorses the idea of accountability.
This request presented the informant with a problem, for he had no conception of signs representing just a vowel or a consonant, and for a long time his efforts were derided.
The public would deride and ruin the general of the defeated army, but the youth told himself that he cared not at all about the generals and trusted the opinion of the public very little.
It is certainly not a quality that should be derided or dismissed as trite - it can be studied, and it can be learned.
Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
It risks being widely derided too, and by its own people. Times, Sunday Times
The age-old term "spinster," for example, continues to be used to deride unmarried women -- past their prime, and left spinning in the tower. Adam Foldes: 'Spinster'? What About 'Peddler'? A Gender Inequality in Terms of Commitment
Critics derided the plot locations. Times, Sunday Times
The model of the church schools, much derided by the fashionable secularists, is a vital aspect of that diversity.
Some critics have derided his work as dumbed-down and self-aggrandising.
They are often derided as immoral fat cats, but it seems that investment bankers have discovered an ethical red line they will not cross. Times, Sunday Times
One kind of misbegotten movie derided by C. B.'s possee has gotta be George Cukor's lugubrious My Fair Lady, also shown on TCM this weekend. View from the Northern Border
Opponents of an estuary airport scheme have long derided such a project on the grounds that it would take decades before it became reality. Times, Sunday Times
Many masterpieces have been considered horrid at some stage and bad art has often been derided as room decoration. Times, Sunday Times
While you cheer for one and deride the other watching the show, their minions are walking out of your back door with a wheel barrow full of cash. Poll: Will Obama visit help Corzine ?
The notion that bankers should have to swear an oath of ethical conduct, pledging to do no wrong, has been much derided. Times, Sunday Times
They speak of freedom and democracy, and our way of life and our values, and they deride those who reason why.
Often in popular culture, vulnerability is derided and feminized in boys of all races, and for young black boys, it's especially "clowned," or hyperbolized, for effect. Jaden Smith's role in 'The Karate Kid' is a refreshing depiction of a black youth
IN PRACTICE it is widely derided as undemocratic, unaccountable, manipulated, unlistening, and at the end of the day railroaded by the government. Historic Warwick: Comrades, Sisters and Brothers, Colleagues - What Has Been Delivered?
The domestic season is likely to feature the sort of two-horse race for which Scottish football is so often derided. Times, Sunday Times
Back in September 2008, David Bookbinder, chief climate council for the Sierra Club, derided as "bugaboos," a "red herring," and a "pure scare tactic" (see segments 1: 47: 10-1: 48: 22 and Planet Gore
Had they told anyone of these omens, of course, they would have been widely derided. Times, Sunday Times
Turks especially deride, Christ's incarnation, resurrection of the body at the last day, quod ideo credendum (saith Tertullian) quod incredible, &c. many miracles not to be controverted or disputed of. Anatomy of Melancholy
Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided,and their confidences will be honored.
The model of the church schools, much derided by the fashionable secularists, is a vital aspect of that diversity.
Critics debunk such attempts as "flunk architecture" and deride it as 'slipcover' since it never explored either its own potential or helped societies cast their evolving identities. The Hindu - Front Page
This was achieved by re-presenting a notion of mutual interdependency that derided the illusion of autonomy carried in the wilder excesses of neo-liberal ideologies.
She derided my effort as childish.
The poet W. H. Auden derided “Lip-smacking Imps of mawk and hooey,” and the feminist author Germaine Greer in her 1970 Female Eunuch rescued equestrian interests of women from psychological leers with “The horse between a girl’s legs is supposed to be a gigantic penis. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
But the American military still recoils from getting involved in such conflicts and derides the worth of constabulary duties and nation building.
It is no wonder therefore that men take it heinously to be laughed at or derided, that is, triumphed over. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
While thematically they rail against these trappings, the whole album sounds like a slow process of ultimate defeat, the band seemingly unable to shake the ties they deride.
Take for example, the West Midlands MP, Sion Simon who as you may recall derided David Cameron for trying to be just like you. Archive 2007-10-01
Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier, was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.
This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction.
To be sure, I would tell him how kindly I had myself been used upon that dry land he was so much afraid of, and how well fed and carefully taught both by my friends and my parents: and if he had been recently hurt, he would weep bitterly and swear to run away; but if he was in his usual crackbrain humour, or (still more) if he had had a glass of spirits in the roundhouse, he would deride the notion. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
Officialdom decides to employ their minions to deride the credibility of all who oppose them.
Critics have derided the idea, pointing out that 240,000 homes a year are required. Times, Sunday Times
This comment was much derided at the time. Times, Sunday Times
Lewis's Narnia stories "morally loathsome," and in a 1998 essay for the Guardian, "The Dark Side of Narnia," derided "the misognyny, the racism, the sado-masochistic relish for violence that permeates the whole cycle"? Archive 2005-12-01
The latter usage has been unreasonably derided, because it is a sentential adverb and it is a new meaning for an old word. 2010 March « Motivated Grammar
Safire advises, ‘an obnoxious male showoff seeking to attract females is derided as a floss or as engaged in flossing.’
These questions are not meant to mock or deride anyone's beliefs.
Leave it to the intellectuals to deride romance novels.
Our motoring correspondent has derided my safe family saloon choice.
Often derided as a cultural desert, it is listed as boasting plenty for arts lovers to experience.
The domestic season is likely to feature the sort of two-horse race for which Scottish football is so often derided. Times, Sunday Times
This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction.
Widely derided as being out of touch with the country, in fact the prime minister showed an acute awareness of the opposition's weaknesses and how best to exploit them.
The Kyoto Protocol was derided by some in the United States as a fantasy, impractical to implement and unfair in that it did not enlist developing countries in this ‘global’ effort.
Pop music, often dismissed and derided as lightweight, had changed the world. The Sun
Much derided, but with an unenviable job. Times, Sunday Times
Sake and shochu, traditional Japanese drinks that were once derided as old-fashioned and the tipple of boozy middle-aged men, are enjoying a boom among trendy young drinkers.
The British stiff upper lip is much derided now. Times, Sunday Times
Credo edepol, ubi mentionem ego fecero de filia mi ut despondeat, sese a me derideri rebitur, neque illo quisquam est alter hodie ex paupertate parcior. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
Often derided as mere populism, storytelling and suspense are rare and precious gifts. Times, Sunday Times
To the news, now," she keeps trying to say, while Scarborough and his brother-in-bombast laugh at her, deride her desire to do anything resembling actual journalism, and harass her with infantilizing, patronizing comments such as this one from Joe: "By the way, Mika's father called her mousey a couple weeks ago, and Mika's been yelling at me all morning to prove to her father that she is no mouse. Jennifer L. Pozner: Paris Isn't Burning - Much to MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski's Chagrin
The development of Anthrop Capital - which is derided from the Greek word for human, anthropos - is revealed in the Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser
[EE] "He is a great derider of schollers and censures their steeple hats for not being set on so good a blocke as his. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
How can I recommend a film that is not only ridiculed by most fans, but also derided by most of the stars of the film?
Jones was often mistaken for a socialist, although the doctrinaire socialists derided him for his belief in Christian brotherhood and opposition to class warfare.
Pham was never sure why Rihndell had the Skroderiders pass through the wormheads 'terrane; maybe, if the creatures were the ultimate trellis users, they wanted a look at the sellers. A Fire Upon the Deep
That newspaper columnist derides the mayor whenever he can.
And though they were often derided as long-haired layabouts, they actually worked extraordinarily hard to conquer new territories and win over new audiences.
Ruin the economy through unregulated greed, then deride the poor guy who has to clean up the mess. Steele: Sanford, Ensign affairs 'old news, old school'
The fact that someone would see that as something to deride is beyond words Think Progress » 66.
Lacking formal education, adult supervision, and sometimes even a home, such youths were derided as ‘rats,’ ‘gamins,’ ‘urchins’ and ‘gutter-snipes.’
She is a main derider to her capacity of those that are not her preachers, and censures all sermons but bad ones. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
Some of those much derided national champions are making decent profits. Times, Sunday Times
Had they told anyone of these omens, of course, they would have been widely derided. Times, Sunday Times
The same posters you deride for "right on, damn straight, harumph harumph ..." are the same ones who will in all likelihood be calling me the dumbest SOB on the face of the planet on my next post, or the one after. Tools and Pocketknives
But he too fell into the trap of name-calling and distortion when he derided ‘populism of the left that rejects globalisation’.
Whereupon Tom arose, and giving vent thus to his grief and shame and rage, smote his derider on the nose; and made it bleed; which sent that young worthy howling to the usher, who reported Tom for violent and unprovoked assault and battery. Tom Brown's Schooldays
Too many idiotic middle/senior-managers in schools are thoughtlessly/unthinkingly implementing government policy or coming up with hare-brained theories on learning styles etc that have been roundly derided by academics. "Bash the teachers" - The Tories new policy
Critics derided the plot locations. Times, Sunday Times
Surely nothing else but a carelesse licentiousnesse to deride and contemne a poore and vnknowen Nation, and such other like vices. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Somewhere in the world, 100-foot yachts are derided as "dinghies," it takes five people and a handful of e-mails to remove a mouse from the kitchen and "true wealth" starts at a hefty $10 million. Archive 2007-06-01
The British stiff upper lip is much derided now. Times, Sunday Times
But it also prompted bitter criticism: animal-rights groups compared the act to Neanderthalism and wife-battery, and a spokesperson for the European Union derided the gesture as "too bizarre" to acknowledge. Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
About half or more of the “millionaire” guys she has to fix up are Jewish and yenta supremo Patty constantly derides them as “nerds” and “nebbishes” to the flotilla of girls she gathers up to meet them. Matthew Yglesias » Life, According to Patti Stanger
Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided,and their confidences will be honored.
Some of those much derided national champions are making decent profits. Times, Sunday Times
Often derided as mere populism, storytelling and suspense are rare and precious gifts. Times, Sunday Times
That newspaper columnist derides the mayor whenever he can.
Therefore disregarding their entreaties he prayed unto God for the soul of the derider, and went on his way. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
But economists and online critics derided the number as a political confection. Times, Sunday Times
But, seriously, for Obama to deride anyone's experience in anything other than jaw-flapping is ridiculous. Palin drills down in policy in high-profile speech
By the late sixties, however, critics routinely derided Capp as bitter and out of touch; the antinomian values of the generation that he mocked were ascendant.
It risks being widely derided too, and by its own people. Times, Sunday Times
The Byzantines derided the coronation of Charlemagne.
But economists and online critics derided the number as a political confection. Times, Sunday Times
Derided for his sentimentality and the mechanical precision of his work, his standing has gradually declined.
Opposition MPs derided the Government's response to the crisis.
The children derided her for her fear of the snake.
Critics deride him as a publicity hound and his combative character has alienated fellow lawyers in previous class actions.
Without the volatile securities business that hobbled some banks, Wells is making hay from a consumer franchise once derided by its slicker Wall Street rivals as a Midwestern, cornpone operation after its 1998 merger with Minneapolis-based Norwest Corp. In Tribute to Wells, Banks Try the Hard Sell
It is certainly not a quality that should be derided or dismissed as trite - it can be studied, and it can be learned.
A female contributor then chimed in and said Adam was "balding" - he isn't - and then derided Adam as a "game show host," referring to his stint on NBC's ABC News: Top Stories
Will the inane chatter so derided by blogging critics start to dry up?
Those entrenched enough to deride as fools or quislings anyone who questions war may also be more prone to edit events to fit their version.
To me copyright infringement is a non crime and is universally derided as evidenced by the wide scale civil disobedience. Australian ‘pirate’ jailed fo 9 months
It's interesting, of course, Bush kind of derided Bill Clinton for investing too much in Boris Yeltsin. CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2001
Th 'unhallow'd Pentheus only durfl deride The cheated people, and their eyelefs guide. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
The domestic season is likely to feature the sort of two-horse race for which Scottish football is so often derided. Times, Sunday Times
The Budget was derided by many as an election sweetener, offering up liberal cash incentives to families with young children.
It's this cavalcade of architectural styles, all stopping around 1850, that the critics deride for being twee.
Dante (Purgatorio, XX, 86) lays more stress on the moral violence, though his words easily convey the notion of physical wrong: "I see the flower-de-luce Anagni enter, and Christ in his own Vicar captive made; I see him yet another time derided; I see renewed the vinegar and gall, and between living thieves I see him slain. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Jeanne, a journalism graduate who works in Manhattan's entertainment industry, said the site aspires to the "ballsiness" of Tracie Egan's blog One D at a Time and the callousness of Vice Magazine's Dos and Don'ts, which has derided the fashion forward for more than a decade. The Globe and Mail - Technology RSS feed
Sound-bites are often derided, and with good reason - many are dishonest or vapid.
Here is a book that uses specialized and technical language ('dialogued', 'paradigms', 'facticity'), to deride experts. The Times Literary Supplement
Clubs are springing up to play once derided disco music. Times, Sunday Times
Juvenal derided the idea of married eunuchs and yet almost all of these neutrals have wives with whom they practise the manifold plaisirs de la petite oie (masturbation, tribadism, irrumation, tete-beche, feuille-de-rose, etc.), till they induce the venereal orgasm. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Pop music, often dismissed and derided as lightweight, had changed the world. The Sun
This comment was much derided at the time. Times, Sunday Times
Had they told anyone of these omens, of course, they would have been widely derided. Times, Sunday Times
This target was hailed as completely unreasonable by the agricultural sector, and she was derided for lack of consultation.
Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided,and their confidences will be honored.
So the fact that he headed the much derided London Underground must still carry with it a little sting of regret. Times, Sunday Times
Their campaign was derided then ignored before the facts seeped slowly out. The Sun
Most commentators derided him for invoking the Deity in his televised interview with last weekend.
This is the William Morris school of socialism, generally derided as being soft-headed, old-fashioned and fantastical.
I may instance his derivation of dismal from Latin dies mali, unpropitious days, derided by Trench, but now known to be substantially correct, and his intelligent conjecture that the much discussed word yeoman 'seemeth to be one word made by contraction of yong man,' an etymology quite recently revived — July 1921 — by the Oxford Dictionary. On Dictionaries
Often in popular culture, vulnerability is derided and feminized in boys of all races, and for young black boys, it's especially "clowned," or hyperbolized, for effect. Jaden Smith's role in 'The Karate Kid' is a refreshing depiction of a black youth
Do you get tired of being derided and dismissed by many mainstream environmental leaders?
Non laborant terram, prædia, seu vineas, sed morantur inter eos nostræ quantitatis homines, qui eos incolunt, sicut serui, quos et Pygmæi sæpè derident, quia sunt ipsis maiores: et quod ipse non cesso mirari dum dicti homines in illa terra generant vel pariunt, non crescit proles supra Pygmæi staturam: Insula non est protensa, sed fortè The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The resultant atmosphere of zealous, self-righteous piety smacks of the same sort of religious-based fundamentalism that is derided and anathematized when proclaimed by radical Islamists, to offer but one example. American Exceptionalism
He knew that his name would lead the newspapers to haze him, as the rustic neighbors deride a rural couple with a noisy "chivaree. We Can't Have Everything
Other sceptics contrarily deride the megaprojects in Tianjin as Potemkin eco-showcases that mask a broader trend of waste and environmental destruction. Can the sea solve China's water crisis?
The best movie of the year, which no one saw, is Mike Judge's Idiocracy, a terrifying vision of a dystopian future in which language has deteriorated to a series of agrammatical corporate logos, the only mention of history is a vague assertion that "the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Nazis," and anyone who speaks in full sentences is derided as a "fag. Frankie Thomas: On Becoming Adequite: or, Why Lindsay Lohan Wasn't Cast in The History Boys
Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance. Quentin Durward
Much derided, but with an unenviable job. Times, Sunday Times
The move was even plausible, for it happened that there was a Skroderider terrane in the Harmonious Repose system -- and currently it was just a few hundred kilometers from Rihndell's second harbor. A Fire Upon the Deep
Most of the films cover a post-war to late '60s period when art houses became popular in American cities and the term codified a certain type of urbane international sensibility, derided by Pauline Kael as where "the educated audience often uses' art 'films in much the same self-indulgent way as the mass audience uses Hollywood' product '- finding wish fulfillment in the form of cheap and easy congratulation on their sensitivities and their liberalism. PopMatters
Moreover, the Bohemian had sung songs of worldly vanity and impure pleasures, he had derided the cord of Saint Francis, made jest of his miracles, and termed his votaries fools and lazy knaves. Quentin Durward
Maybe you should consider this before you flippantly deride a non-virgin bride or groom as "miscast" in their own religious ceremony. Living together, having a big wedding.
After all, he got a fellow widely derided as a boob into the White House, and then he guided a gigantic relieve-the-rich tax cut through Congress.
Should effort and endeavour be punished or derided?
Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided,and their confidences will be honored.
Their campaign was derided then ignored before the facts seeped slowly out. The Sun
Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided,and their confidences will be honored.
It is symptomatic that the senex among them, the canonical mythologue, is the one who feels compelled to deride the latter as ‘the most superficial: a shallow psychology one might say, that offers no real substance for reflection’.
Troops were given a pay rise this year of just 2.6 per cent - widely derided as nowhere near enough to stop a mass exodus. The Sun
They derided his September relaunch - with its odd headline typeface and coloured masthead - as a waste of time and money.
Those things that the nation once glorified it now derides and satirizes.
It's somewhat sobering to think that the device that Galileo helped to develop and used to make his discoveries is essentially the same design as the instrument that Rob was so quick to tire of and deride as a toy, a frippery.
Four years ago, they were derided for raising proposals to decriminalise cannabis.
He derided net evangelists who believed that the answer was ‘let's come up with new ways of talking!’
Other identifications - whether with feminism, the gay community, independent activist organisations - are derided as bourgeois and self-limiting.
So I didn't ridicule or deride contributions, and published most emails critical of me, my style, and my substance.
The Bunnies came under fire from many critics, including the feminist Gloria Steinem, who derided the selection and training process - where looks trumped all - as degrading.
Much derided, but with an unenviable job. Times, Sunday Times
When I have allowed more flourishing and dreamful prose like this to flow about pacifism people have derided my lapse by suggesting that I need to get up on a cross. Archive 2009-03-01
Numerous critics have derided the act as one-sided. Times, Sunday Times

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