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derided
/dɪˈɹaɪdɪd/
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What does derided mean?
adjective
- Disparaged; subject to criticism or mockery.
verb
- simple past and past participle of deride
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈɹaɪdɪd/
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The sly and pungent humour, and the banter with which the counsel derided and laughed down this witness, were inimitable.
I cannot but remember how the Indians derided the slowness, and dullness of the English army, in its setting out.
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His simple notion of having a home of his own is derided as bourgeois, as sentimental, or as despicably Christian.
He felt that he and his companions were being taunted and derided from sincere convictions that they were poor and puny.
If the lock resists your efforts, you will be derided and scorned in love and perilous voyages will bring to you no benefit.