derision

How To Use derision In A Sentence

• In other cultures he might be described as effeminate and, therefore, be an object of derision. The Kaisho
• After years of derision and association with loutish behaviour, lager is mounting a fightback. After real ale, brewers cash in on trend for 'real lagers'
• She would never have stood by while he became a figure of scorn and derision.
• However you took the offending article down before I had chance to snort with derision at its fubar logic and textual opacity.
• Brown gets narky: nothing irritates him more than the sound of soft but universal derision. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
• Contempt and derision were now poured not upon the heretical supporters of change, but upon their orthodox opponents.
• So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly. The Ranch at the Wolverine
• Jason snorted in derision and crossed his arms over his chest, looking at her scathingly.
• This was intolerable, this was un-American, you wanted to laugh in derision. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
• The cast is universally appealing, and everything about the movie seems to be enjoying itself to such a degree that any derision would make me feel a spoilsport.