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

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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.
His belated admission to the ranks of the tenjo-bito provoked some derision and he was commonly spoken of as Gen-sammi (the Minamoto third rank). A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
As he suffered derision upon derision, I am not certain whether I should call this Monterone unconvincingly pathetic, or pathetically unconvincing.
Overhead, a passing troop of red-faced mangabeys hooted in derision before crashing off through the canopy, while a nine-inch millipede with a body like stainless steel crawled across my hand and into the leaf litter.
Moreover, virtually every target of the film is legitimate and deserving of scorn and derision.
I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay , and I'll laught in derision!
I was surprised to observe his frowning aspect on landing, and ascribed it to the circumstance of his being the "harse," or harrow, a term of derision applied to the slowest canoe. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.
The Republican plan is already getting derision from the Right, making it even easier for Democrats to dismiss (if not outright ridicule). Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [140] -- Pledging Nonsense
Behind his head, a grimy window overlooking Somerville's Main Street seemed to glower with derision. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
If you did, you risked verbal or physical abuse, derision and expulsion.
The name itself connotes derision and contempt for the inhabitants of the compound.
And Stine just kept right on provoking him with taunts and derision.
After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils formed in line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand. Great Expectations
It was the supreme anthem of renunciation, of scorn, of derision at the pretensions of the ungifted and the insensitive.
He pours derision on those who were well rewarded time-servers under Stalinism and now present themselves as heroic freedom fighters in the ‘Daily Telegraph’.
They present a perfect blend of pathos, wonder, derision, fear, disgust and fury.
These ranged from open derision to outright firings, and even attempts to rescind earned degrees.
I felt like crying and was only restraining myself because I was sure Eileen would treat me with total derision. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
I turned up at the dude ranch in jodhpurs, to the derision of cowhands and guests alike.
He started laughing and mocked the old man with cynical derision.
These nicknames of affection or derision, from the French slang soubriquet, “a chuck under the chin,” enlivened the political language of a previous era. No Uncertain Terms
He presented this idea in a talk to the London Chemical Society in 1866, only to be greeted with derision.
They present a perfect blend of pathos, wonder, derision, fear, disgust and fury.
Though the animals could not understand his words, they heard the derision in his tone and responded with offended noises of their own.
When John Fitch's boat stemmed the current of the Delaware, contending successfully with sail boats, it was called, in derision, the _scheme boat_. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
There are plenty of hoots and whistles, derision for the woman's coy smile and smeared-on lipstick.
Since then, supply-side economics, as it was called - first with derision but then as a label embraced by its supporters - has become a central tenet of Republican political and economic thinking in the country. Terrance Heath: Concentrating the Wealth, Pt. 1
The Five howled mockery and derision, the cards danced and beckoned luringly in the mellow lamplight, the Judge pulled his coat-tail, the Major Premise tugged. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
Laughter and derision are in many ways the deadliest bogies in politics.
The comic had risen through the standup ranks, working hard at developing an act after his initial performances drew derision.
It is either an unrealisable wish-list that will prompt howls of derision, or a stark reminder of the size of the job facing us.
I have endeavoured to show that Shakespeare cooperated with this derision of forced love-sighs, writing certain of his sonnets in ridicule of their windy suspiration.
He devotes five separate questions of the Summa Theologiae to ‘injuries inflicted by words’: reviling, backbiting, talebearing, derision, and cursing.
Amidst the sounds of derision that followed him, might be heard the words frequently repeated -- "_Come hame, come hame_. The Portent & Other Stories
To this I expect to hear snorts of derision.
Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.
I knew it was you because of the derision with which you regarded my chrom bag/ recycled cycles woolie ensamble. This Just in: I Break for Holidays!
It was confined to the elite on the grounds of their alleged virtue - and it often drew scorn and derision.
So at the risk of being dragooned into the ranks of the lynch mob, I'll add that the simplest reason he inspires so much derision is that he dishes it out himself in spades with a supremely self satisfied and moralistic air.
My suggestions for what might be happening were treated with, I felt, derision.
Even the low-minded costermonger, to whom ‘wellingtons’ are objects of contempt and derision, and who laughs to scorn galligaskins and knickerbockers, evinces the national tendency for leather by stipulating for ‘anklejacks’ with ‘tongues’ ample enough to overlap the lacings by at least three inches.
Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.
But in a trice it all changed, for the temper of a mob is as subject to unexplained changes as the wind, and it was a great shout of sympathy and triumph instead of derision. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Derision of a traditionalist segment of the public for not immediately jumping into line with standard selectionist narratives (however far-fetched they may be), is not the answer here. A New Book
In one instance her inadequate performance provoked catcalls and derision.
Quickly dubbed ‘the French letter,’ the missive became an object of derision and only heightened contempt for French actions.
The derision into which the Cult of the Supreme Being fell after the overthrow of the Jacobins did not discredit the theme, which underwent a series of conservative metamorphoses in the 19th century.
What a huge whopping lie, I thought with self-derision.
Pilotshark, I again commend you on your compassionate approach to teh trolls — offering them help to overcome their affliction, rather than simple derision. Think Progress » CNN Taps Unhinged Conservative Blogger Erick Erickson As Regular Political Commentator
his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision
Americans speak with derision of those who are lazy.
In fact, the reason I remember this particular presentation at all is the scorn, contempt, and derision that followed.
I, among others, have responded to these suggestions with scorn and derision.
At uni, I tried my hand at fishing for trout and caught nothing all day except a barrel of derision when I slipped and fell into a river.
Much derision has greeted the claim by some of those in the photographs that they were inadequately trained.
We began by trying not to be London style snobs, to keep our metropolitan insouciance zipped, but the sheer volume, the boundless gaudy vulgarity of it, overwhelms you, and you just have to howl with derision.
We already know how the system works; when you don't fit into the acceptable pigeonholes, you're the object of derision, or worse.
An object of derision though she may be to some, to others the celebrity fashion icon is a godsend, for rarely does she also possess a model figure.
Maybe I've strayed off-topic here, but I think that mockery and derision is, oddly enough, part of the stuff of taking religion seriously.
And the notion that derision is a tool of logic or 'expository' illumination. Does Science Fiction, in Fact, Suck?
Anyhow, anything written by the three mentioned above should from this day forward be treated with suspicion, if not outright derision.
And he had laughed, not in derision, not in amusement, but because she was absolutely right. AMAGANSETT
There is some sort of derision of the farming community as a bunch of hayseeds.
The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn.
And I was a particularly fingery artist, a maker of fine satiric lines which sometimes worried me, so like needlecraft were they, so like little daggers of derision and self-hurt. Kalooki Nights
If this and other resolutions fell well below popular expectations, their implementation since then has invited even greater derision.
If you have even the slightest degree of cynicism in your nature, it has moments that will make you howl with derision and disbelief.
The comic had risen through the stand-up ranks, working hard at developing an act after his initial performances drew derision.
Fierce jests about the Scotch who came to make their fortune off their richer neighbors, about their clannishness and their canniness, and their poverty and their pride, and still lower and coarser jibes about other supposed peculiarities were then still as current as the popular crows of triumph over the French and other similar antipathies; and Kirsteen's advent was attended by many comments of the kind from the sharp young Londoners to whom her accent and her slower speech, and her red hair and her ladyhood were all objects of derision. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
Sertorius, began to waver and revolt; whereupon Sertorius uttered various arrogant and scornful speeches against Pompey, saying in derision, that he should want no other weapon but a ferula and rod to chastise this boy with, if he were not afraid of that old woman, meaning Metellus. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
How often have I seen people raise questions about the work of a hero only to be met by quiet derision or patronizing dismissal.
If you did, you risked verbal or physical abuse, derision and expulsion.
No, if I'm to enter SYTYF and risk the derision that may entail, I'm determined that it be for a nobler cause.
The hotel servants chuckled as he went in and out; the oystermen and wood-cutters called jocosely to each other as he passed by; respectable people said he could have no consideration for his wife to degrade her by raising the derision of the town. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
His remarks were greeted with hisses and derision.
When I see those TV commercials of silverback Baby Boomers sprinting with vintage surfboards toward ever-higher-yielding money-market funds, I feel both Boomer derision and a gnawing dread that my own funds are not similarly accruing (and in fact they are not — but maybe, to offset the losses, Brian Grazer will option my book?). Class Dismissed
It was greeted with derision - there is really no other word for it - around the country.
Sime flung a jeer from the top of the canoe, the women snickered in his face, cries of derision rose in his wake, but he took no notice, pressing onward to the house of Scundoo. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
This being done, we proceed unto the communion, if any communicants be to receive the Eucharist; if not, we read the Decalogue, Epistle, and Gospel, with the Nicene Creed (of some in derision called the dry communion), and then proceed unto an homily or sermon, which hath a psalm before and after it, and finally unto the baptism of such infants as on every Sabbath day (if occasion so require) are brought unto the churches; and thus is the forenoon bestowed. Of the Ancient and Present Estate of the Church of England. Chapter V. [1577, Book II., Chapter 5; 1585, Book II., Chapter 1
Can't take credit for this one but it definitely qualifies as a potsticker: anonymous comment on The New York Times comment page, on Sarah Palin's derision of Obama as a community organizer: "Someone needs to remind Mrs. Palin that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor. Jlo's Potsticker #2
The locals enjoy repeating a contrary slogan in derision, "Ni Hechos, Ni Palabras" which I needn´t translate but which. suffice it to say, is repeated often with much relish and irony. Son Hechos, No Palabras
The show was heaped with derision for its mangling of some of the most famous lines in the English language.
She had a certain consciousness – or fear – that it would not be understood, and she would be laughed at – not openly, for Dr. Sandford was never impolite; but yet she shrunk from the cold glance of unbelief, or of derision, however well and kindly masked. Melbourne House
Then your soul writhed in derision, you scoffed at that which you had held to be the nobility of the soul, and you minced words satirically over the exquisiteness of the type which we have evolved. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Although the official media afford him considerable respect, he is the object of some derision among other Chinese, who lampoon what they call his mediocre performance as a student, his unkempt ways and his prodigious girth; in recent years, his weight has exceeded 220 pounds. PrairiePundit
I have been just reflecting that the theme is becoming a little exhausted, and your experience may perhaps supply” — — “Ha, ha, ha! — my experience supply!” interrupted Mr. Fairscribe, with a laugh of derision; — “why, you might as well ask my son James’s experience to supply a case” about thirlage. The Surgeon's Daughter
As to the text, I fear the reader's snorts of derision will begin early on.
She had insisted upon his learning his catechism, and attending church twice every Sunday, and she had knitted him a comforter, the material being that harsh and scrubby worsted which makes the word comforter a sound of derision. The Golden Calf
The more discussion-worthy point, however, is the use of humor as a political weapon - mockery, derision, diminishment.
Lydia snorted in derision and yanked her arm out of his grasp.
That won him the derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds.
In his comparative study of religions, Legge exhibits his inextirpable exclusivism in his belief in Christianity; however, in his evaluation of Confucianism, he took a change from derision to respect.
When spears and boomerangs thrown against the walls in derision failed to bring the whites out, the Aborigines stormed the hut and tried to unroof it. Wildwood
It is difficult to write of the relation of the older and most foreign-looking immigrants to the children of other people – the Italians whose fruit-carts are upset simply because they are "dagoes," or the Russian peddlers who are stoned and sometimes badly injured because it has become a code of honor in a gang of boys to thus express their derision. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn.
There are plenty of hoots and whistles, derision for the woman's coy smile and smeared-on lipstick.
He replied by “foul, unmannered, scurril taunts,” which only drew forth fresh derision, and the coffee-house keeper laughed consumedly, having probably seldom entertained such “funny gentlemen.” Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
He tried to calm them, but was greeted with shouts of derision.
Camilla cast up her eyes and hands: 'Lionel,' she cried, 'what have you done with your heart? has it banished every natural feeling? has the affecting letter of the best of fathers, his cruel separation from the most excellent of mothers, and even your own dreadfully censurable conduct, served but to amuse you with ridicule and derision?' Camilla
Several journalists began first to sniff, then to snort and finally to chuckle their derision.
She is an incredible artist who has endured public derision and scorn for well over a decade.
You can see how the slightest impropriety would be pounced on as grounds for derision and exclusion.
I don't agree with you and therefore I'm only worthy of your derision and mockery.
An object of derision though she may be to some, to others the celebrity fashion icon is a godsend, for rarely does she also possess a model figure.
The tone is deprecatory throughout, and 30 cartoons, many of which are full page, reinforce the ridicule and derision.
It is very easy for critics to pour scorn and derision on the efforts of people just trying to do what is right.
What a mess they made of it," said Sam with a snort of derision.
Serious debate is not welcome in the mainstream; dissent is treated with derision and contempt, or ignored.
He became an object of universal derision.
These writers, although they haue not left behind them such filthy and reprochful stuffe as that base rimer: yet there are many things in their writings that wil not suffer them to be excused, & altogether acquited from causing an innocent nation to be had in derision by others. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Wednesday's snow would be greeted with derision by Dalesmen of old.
They enforced a code of silence about sex and attacked the “swishy type of homosexual who brought contempt and derision on the majority of homosexuals.” A Renegade History of the United States
There were hoots of mock derision and cries of joy in the Kobe Wing Stadium last night.
In Italy, he has earned the derision of the French press for sending all citizens a personal letter and a free calculator to convert lire to euros, at a cost of 10 million of the latter to the public purse.
In his comparative study of religions, Legge exhibits his inextirpable exclusivism in his belief in Christianity; however, in his evaluation of Confucianism, he took a change from derision to respect.
They treated his suggestion with derision.
From now on, any government urging military action for moral purpose will face hoots of derision and howls of scepticism.
Then a terrific howl of derision silenced him.
And on those rare occasions when she attempts a one-liner, it is met with hoots of derision.
That won him the derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds.
I've learned to treat their threats with the scorn and derision they deserve.
And Stine just kept right on provoking him with taunts and derision.
If you wrap your derision in the flag, you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do.
Ridicule and derision are a kind of evanescent ostracism, a temporary exclusion from the comradeship. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
They see he is half swacked and they admire the clarity of his wit, the fine edge of insult and derision. Underworld
And the temptation here is to snort in derision and ask: not difficult enough?
Each abuse deftly combines esoteric absurdism and audacious vulgarity to provide an instantly quotable collection of derision. IN THE LOOP DVD Review – Collider.com
The dogma is of absolutes, the lifestyle is of attempted purity and the zealot is subject to continuous derision.
But the move has been greeted with derision by sitting Euro MPs.
The House of Commons was opened to almost universal derision.
And the president's habit of roughing people up with jocular derision doesn't work as well when the trappings of power aren't all around him.
In either case, the suffering of the person with MPD is equally pitiable and deserving of our understanding, not derision.
I know it has drawn derision as being too arch but, come on, Isabelle Huppert as a celibate nymphomaniac?! Hal Hartley’s Trust – at last on DVD « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
It then undertook the dismantling of much of its socialist policy and organisational structure but not its political apparatuses - thereby earning derision on both counts.
He became an object of universal derision.
It was the Dowager who spoke first, and her whole voice and manner expressed all she intended that they should, all the derision, dislike and scathing resignment to a grotesque fate. The Shuttle
Why should I care if your wife hoots in derision at my sock-clad feet?
An instrument of punishment no longer in use, consisting of a chair in which the offender was tied and exposed to public derision or ducked in water.
If you wrap your derision in the big red flag you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do.
This document, along with all it's stylistic failings and its imponderable inelegance, is presented before the ire of public with the expectation of out and out derision. An Idiot is Never Worth Your Time or More Mythomania for Your Buck An Idiot is Never Worth Your Time or More Mythomania for
Ditto Se7en although that version of the title deserves some derision and Fight Club. Why review comics? or, the Fight Club syndrome | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Thus the appeal of punk covers: you get the energy and the attitude AND recognizable tunes you can sing along with, either out of empathy or derision.
It's perhaps no surprise that the project has already attracted its share of cynical derision.
But Faber added it was ‘no secret’ he has ‘trouble with a literary world-view that is unrelievedly cynical and which treats all human endeavours with disgust and derision.’
Behind him, he heard the Draka snort in derision—and then moist hands were pushing him forward. LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
He thought he heard a snort of derision from Sean but he had the attention of the rest of them.
Though avaricious capitalists are easy and popular targets for derision, this tale is decidedly more quirky and original than cliché.
I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay , and I'll laught in derision!
In the later stages of the march, his derision turned to mud-slinging. Times, Sunday Times
Anything less than a win will be greeted with howls of derision by a public who have grown sick of the culture of rugby mediocrity.
his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision
That's what makes Google so intriguing, and a worthy subject for New Yorker writer Ken Auletta's 11th book, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Unlike Curse, which treats moguls with derision, Auletta's more interested in penetrating the often secretive world of the business elite and telling the stories with skill, intelligence and respect. What's the future of media? Three books try to sort it out
There is a heavy silence around the table, except for an adenoidal snort of derision from Noon. LOVE YOU MADLY
a laugh of derision; -- "why, you might as well ask my son James's experience to supply a case" about thirlage. The Surgeon's Daughter
At this there was a snort of derision from her friend but she continued unaware, lost in the imagination of these various events.
The sun is a nuclear-driven fireball - but speak the taboo statement that nuclear fuel is the only truly sustainable source of energy and one gets shouted down with howls of derision by less well-informed eco-warriors.
For certain disorders, conflicting theories emerged about their aetiology and pathogenesis, at times engendering negative attitudes among workers in one or the other field, including derision and incivility.
The man's tears can recruit to a derision and slight.

How To Use Derision In A Sentence

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