HOW TO PRONOUNCE
derision
/dɚˈɪʒən/
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What does derision mean?
noun
- Act of treating with disdain.
- Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɚˈɪʒən/
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"Derision" is pleasure arising from our conceiving the presence of a quality, which we despise, in an object which we hate.
If so, I have derision med’cinable To use between your strangeness and his pride, Which his own will shall have desire to drink.
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Beautiful women, standing up in coaches, pointing in derision at extinguished lights, and clapping their hands, as they pass on, crying, ‘Senza Moccolo!
Diggory withdrew with an emphatic step, Wildeve’s eye passing over his form in withering derision, as if he were no more than a heath-cropper.
He has nothing but contempt and derision for the man who believes in or knows of a spiritual body or a soul.