banter, despise, feel superior to, hold beneath one, knock, make merry with, presume, rib, set at naught, snigger at
Definitionv. treat or speak of with contempt
Last update: September 2, 2015
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He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics. [Please select]
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It is fashionable these days to deride the very notion of Britishness, but the concept has a meaning and has a date. [verb]
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The Guardian 's news value was in the headline, ' Experts deride report on crime and moral decline '. [verb]
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Sappho, who had derided her brother for marrying one beneath him, soon became an enthusiastic admirer of the beautiful widow and rivalled Alcaeus in passionate songs to her praise. [verb]
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Had a friend hinted at this interpretation of the ambiguous oracle, I should have derided, nay, probably caused him to be punished. [verb]
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Is it necessary to remind this journal that it has no right to deride a dogmatic philosopher, because it is without a doctrine itself. [verb]
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That, of course, is commonly known in Graustark, where he is scorned and derided. [Please select]
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But there was no one there to see or deride their grief. [Please select]
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The frame thy wayward looks deride Required a God to form. [Please select]
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