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  • Piggy once more was the center of social derision...   (source)
    derision = ridicule (made fun of and treated as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • He flushed hotly under the derisive grins of the bulldozer drivers.   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • I couldn't bear their sympathy or their good-humored derision.   (source)
    derision = teasing
  • "I'm a pilot, you son of a ..."
    "I will overlook your derisive language to a superior officer."   (source)
    derisive = showing lack of respect
  • Keep calm, he derided himself.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • Hallorann laughed derisively.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Putting all the derision he could into his voice, he jeered, "How did you like being shot?"   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • I saw the derision on their faces,   (source)
  • His voice held an edge of derision now.   (source)
  • There was a stirring in the crowd, a few hoots of derision, but Kennedy smiled.   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Todd laughed derisively,   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • "Visitor for you, Dustfinger," he announced derisively as he lit the lantern.   (source)
  • His children deride him.   (source)
    deride = laugh at or made fun of
  • It was a derisive sort of cough, the kind of noise someone might make who was trying not to laugh out loud.   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • The street greeted them with catcalls and mockery. They were cornered, trying to escape public derision,   (source)
    derision = ridicule (being made fun of; and being treated as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • ...and his tone of derision did not escape the Baron.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • My father snorted in derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment of others as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • said derisively   (source)
    derisively = treating as inferior and unworthy of respect -- especially while mocking (making fun of)
  • ...the orphanage nuns who had derided and beaten him?   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • ...my only way to judge the Iranian's private attitude toward Americans was through his family's reactions toward me, which were openly hostile and derisive.   (source)
    derisive = regarding as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • The veterans found in this a new source of derision.   (source)
    derision = disrespect and mockery
  • Lindy's tone is derisive as she passes back copies of the Tuttle homecoming court ballot.   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating others as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • She talked Tom up all that week, and my father, who had gleefully derided a boy who had dared to ask once what country they spoke Latin in, played along.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • He kept the chaplain in a constant state of terror with his curt, derisive tongue...   (source)
    derisive = showing contempt and ridicule (lack of respect and making fun of)
  • It was an impatient voice, and Tereza felt there was a hint of derision in it.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • As he spoke, he saw the derision alter to interest.   (source)
  • Her aunt did not attend church and derided those who did.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of
  • ...the elfin creature gazed back into the hazy room and gave a derisive snort.   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • The chuckle turned into a hoot of derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • She was startled to see him looking at her with a touch of derision, as if he were mocking her estimate...   (source)
    derision = contempt and ridicule (lack of respect and making fun of)
  • . . . the one thing I've tried to carry pure and unscathed through the sewer of this marriage; through the sick nights, and the pathetic, stupid days, through the derision and the laughter . . .   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • The New Orleans Times Picayune ran a large derisive front-page story with a thick black headline:   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as unworthy of respect)
  • It told of a man at a bar who boasted of his rootlessness, derisively dismissing the jingoistic patrons to his left and to his right.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • When he left us she bid him goodbye using his surname, with neither irony nor derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment of others as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Cries of surprise and derision came from the audience at the sight of two figures,   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • Whether it was done as a compliment or in derision was immaterial.   (source)
  • When Lee dug trenches around Richmond they called him, derisively, the King of Spades.   (source)
    derisively = mockingly with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • ROS: I think we can say he made us look ridiculous.
    GUIL: We played it close to the chest of course.
    ROS (derisively): "Question and answer. Old ways are the best ways"! He was scoring off us all down the line.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • He ... snorted with amusement and derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment of others as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • He laughed at that, a snorting laugh of derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • And now he did laugh, but not in derision.   (source)
    derision = a manner that treats as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • "Of course," she said softly, derision in her voice.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • ...and burst into a shout of derision.   (source)
    derision = mockery at their inferiority
  • ...and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • The singing words mocked him derisively.
    "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world…"   (source)
    derisively = in a manner that showed no respect for his feelings or ideas
  • Several times he had derided Christianity and called it un-Japanese.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • There was a hint of derision in her voice,   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • smiling not in derision but in genuine amusement and kindness.   (source)
  • ...the entire squadron burst out derisively with: Branta beraicla sits a-slumming in the slob...   (source)
    derisively = in a manner that made fun of and showed a lack of respect
  • "Clock watcher," commented a girl derisively.   (source)
    derisively = contemptuously (with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • Jan joined in and Bigger smiled derisively. '... that ain't the tune, he thought.'   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • "Oh, yeah, you let 'em, because you thought you were the little white lamb of God—" and she paused to give him a couple of pitiful derisive baa's,   (source)
    derisive = showing disrespect
  • "Of all the narrow-minded excuses," McKisco looked around to establish a derisive liaison with some one else, but without success.   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • The half-caste muttered something that sounded angry or derisive.   (source)
  • Margie sniffed in derision.   (source)
    derision = as though her surroundings were unworthy of respect
  • In the applause that greeted them some derision mingled.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • He storms and bullies and derides; but she stands up to him so ruthlessly that the Colonel has to ask her from time to time to be kinder to Higgins;   (source)
    derides = treats as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • The county derided him.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • in spite of our derision she cherished a belief that Christ was born in Bohemia a short time before the Shimerdas left that country.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • his wife's efforts to represent him as a man of forceful character and marked intellectual ability (if he had only "chosen") had been met with a derisive chuckle.   (source)
    derisive = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Then he began to laugh derisively and scornfully.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • He was an elderly man ... who had painted a number of decorations for the State, but these were an object of derision to the students he instructed:   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • Upon the top of the car was a brakeman, who shook his fist and swore; Jurgis waved his hand derisively, and started across the country.   (source)
    derisively = in a manner that treated him as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Swann was beginning, a trifle pompously, when the Doctor broke in derisively.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • ...while Mowgli, dancing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his derision and contempt.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • It would now be he who could laugh and shoot the shafts of derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided your superiors-- behold!   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • When the mother died, the village parson was not ashamed to hold Marie up to public derision and shame.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • All those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths just shriek with derision!   (source)
    derision = treatment of others as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • —she could see what I myself saw: his derision, his amusement, his...   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • Tom withered him with derision!   (source)
    derision = by treating him as though he were inferior and unworthy of respect
  • the derisive Scott   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • After receiving the charge with every mark of derision, the pupils...   (source)
    derision = treatment as unworthy of respect
  • Napoleon was silent, still looking derisively at him and evidently not listening to him.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • ...laughed the stranger, with a solemnly derisive sort of laugh.   (source)
    derisive = treating as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • "Just as if every big bird must be an eagle!" replied Ernest, in a tone of derision.   (source)
    derision = superiority (treating another as inferior while mocking him)
  • ...deriding and ridiculing all Mr. Heathcliff's assertions about his son,   (source)
    deriding = laughing at or making fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • the name is applied to bold criminals as a term of derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as unworthy of respect
  • I concluded that he laughed in derision of my efforts, confident of his own resources.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • "--did I say they did?" said Cassy, with a smile of chilling derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • [the world's] derision for disappointed hopes   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • And now he was derided by his sister, Lady Artemis, who had her stinging word:   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • The derisive smiles soon faded as, pair by pair, the heirs heard their code words sung.†   (source)
  • I would stagnate here, nothing would ever happen to me, I would end up an old maid like Miss Violence, pitied and derided.†   (source)
  • The princeps's expression was derisive as he spoke to the science consul.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Kentucky transplants and their children are so prominent in Middletown, Ohio (where I grew up), that as kids we derisively called it "Middletucky."†   (source)
  • A familiar female voice said, with derision, "Look at her!†   (source)
  • Kate heard a derisive snort, then Jackson's voice saying, "Hold on, you two."†   (source)
  • The air was filled with honks and whistles and shouts in a mixture of good-natured cheer and lusty derision.†   (source)
  • Her brothers predictably balked at this and made derisive comments regarding the desirability of holding Hester's panties—under any circumstances.†   (source)
  • The girls sensed their immunity and their laughter grew louder, into cackles of hilarity and derision.†   (source)
  • Bronwyn flashed me a look of utter derision.†   (source)
  • "You are children," he said derisively.†   (source)
  • "The stage," he said derisively.†   (source)
  • A person constantly busy accessing on his implants makes a pitiful sight in public and it didn't take Helenda's derision to make me realize that if I stayed home I would turn into an All Thing sponge like so many millions of other slugs around the Web.†   (source)
  • With that, they raced out onto the field, to the clanging of cowbells and hoots of derision.†   (source)
  • She liked me best when I was dry, derisive and cutting, a natural talent she believed I'd forfeited through long association with children.†   (source)
  • Josh snorted derisively.†   (source)
  • " 'People would have come from all over to see it,' " he repeated derisively.†   (source)
  • Go didn't consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.†   (source)
  • They looked at him as if he were a maniac, pointing with derision at his dandy's outfit.†   (source)
  • Why was he so derisive, and why did he act like I'd done something to deserve it?†   (source)
  • The educated Englishman was our model; what we aspired to be were "black Englishmen," as we were sometimes derisively called.†   (source)
  • But thou, 0 Lord, shalt have them in derision.†   (source)
  • Shade answered with a quick, backward-flung glance and a little derisive laugh, but no words.†   (source)
  • "You always act so guilty" Hamilton said derisively.†   (source)
  • Every time I was slow to answer or asked her to repeat a question, Shorty would snort derisively, or worse, mimic my responses.†   (source)
  • He looked startled, and Ambiades stifled a derisive laugh, but neither of them complained to the magus.†   (source)
  • The men who had invested in them were the subjects of cautionary tales, derision, and a fair measure of public loathing.†   (source)
  • Every new guy was at the mercy of whoever happened to be around when he checked in, and endured anything from catcalls about his dress whites to getting his Trident painted blue, the same color as an inert training munition—the derision being that until he was fully trained, that's exactly how he would be regarded: inert, harmless, useless.†   (source)
  • But by now I had a swollen right knee, a cricked neck, an injured left hamstring and the derision of my Chinese colleagues to cope with.†   (source)
  • They didn't question him, didn't laugh or ask why, they didn't ignore him and continue with the ridicule, and they didn't turn their derision on him.†   (source)
  • Eledir gave what amounted to a restrained snort of derision.†   (source)
  • Another girl snorted with derision.†   (source)
  • "Danger!" says Mum derisively.†   (source)
  • It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision.†   (source)
  • And my heart tightened as the first crowd swung imperturbably back to their looting with derisive cries, like sandpipers swinging around to glean the shore after a furious wave's recession.†   (source)
  • Feeling his role was little better than that of a clerk, feeling forgotten by Congress, he labored on intensely, writing letters, struggling with accounts, trying to keep abreast of events through the London newspapers and magazines, where he now saw himself derided as pathetically out of place.†   (source)
  • To one side of it, Frank was showing off to the children how he could skim stones and earning only derision.†   (source)
  • FOREWORD In the fifties, when I was a student, the embarrassment of being called a politically minded writer was so acute, the fear of critical derision for channeling one's creativity toward the state of social affairs so profound, it made me wonder: Why the panic?†   (source)
  • She nags him constantly, and when he compares himself with the great men in the historical biographies he enjoys reading, she sarcastically derides him.†   (source)
  • In her literal incarnation she was a strong cultural force as the nation expanded to the west, but a metaphorical schoolmarm was congenial to the American yearning for propriety and gentility, for a homegrown culture that would not be derided by the older cultures of Europe.†   (source)
  • And the laughter of the other upperclassmen grew more shrill and derisive as they came from the other three battalions to witness the frenzied efforts of the R Company cadre to run him out of the Corps.†   (source)
  • Bessie gives a small snort of derision.†   (source)
  • In spite of his derision, she kept telling him about her dreams.†   (source)
  • How shocking," said Gabriel derisively.†   (source)
  • A squad of evil imps yammered the phrase derisively in the black pit of my despair.†   (source)
  • My God-given physical gracelessness immediately made me an object of derision among the other boys, most of whom had the agility of chimpanzees and found it hilarious that my efforts should always end in a clatter of crashing bones.†   (source)
  • No wonder the Old Testament prophets pour out the acid of their derision on the idol and its maker.†   (source)
  • He winks at her, with a derisive glance at his father.†   (source)
  • He ransacked the entire range of the English language for terms of scorn and derision.†   (source)
  • But no one seemed to notice, except the smaller boy, who flew out of the water to dig his fingers into her side, in mixed congratulation and derision; she pushed him angrily down into the sand.†   (source)
  • She did not say it with the blunt, derisive hostility to which I had grown so accustomed, but, rather, with a note of apology in her voice, and fear.†   (source)
  • It was as if she did not wish to give her husband the satisfaction of knowing that she cared anything for him at all, or felt anything for him, even contempt and derision.†   (source)
  • Pearl and Margie exchange a derisive look.   (source)
    derisive = mocking and disrespectful
  • "It's all right, Director," he said in a tone of faint derision, "I won't corrupt them."   (source)
    derision = indicating that the Director's concerns should not be taken seriously
  • Was that a kind of bestial derision that he detected in those blank grey eyes?   (source)
    derision = lack of respect
  • Through the open door came the thuds and occasional clangs of a horseshoe game, and now and then the sound of voices raised in approval or derision.   (source)
    derision = ridicule (making fun of someone)
  • had to endure the derisive glances   (source)
    derisive = showing contempt and ridicule (lack of respect and making fun of)
  •   "Evil's an unreality if you take a couple of grammes."
      "Kohakwa iyathtokyai!" The tone was menacingly derisive.   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as unworthy of respect)
  • "Yes, I know," said Bernard derisively.   (source)
    derisively = showing disrespect for the concept
  • "O brave new world, O brave new world …" In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tone. They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision!   (source)
    derision = disrespect
  • And Tomakin, ex-Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, Tomakin was still on holiday–on holiday from humiliation and pain, in a world where he could not hear those words, that derisive laughter, could not see that hideous face, feel those moist and flabby arms round his neck, in a beautiful world … "What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change."   (source)
    derisive = mocking (showing a lack of respect)
  • It was only in Zuñi that the Savage could adequately express what he felt about the Arch-Community-Songster. "Háni!" he added as an after-thought; and then (with what derisive ferocity!): "Sons éso tse-ná." And he spat on the ground, as Popé might have done. In the end Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms and inform the impatient assembly that the Savage would not be appearing that evening.   (source)
    derisive = disrespectful (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • She could not go on enduring the hidden derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • She met Selden's sound of protest with a sharp derisive glance.   (source)
    derisive = treating as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • He remembered afterward, with a grim flash of self-derision, what...   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Under this derision Babbitt became more matter-of-fact.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • She took both hands, and called derisively as she fired again.   (source)
    derisively = in a manner that made fun of and showed a lack of respect
  • A low gurgle of derisive laughter followed the words.   (source)
    derisive = treating as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • He assailed their showy titles with measureless derision;   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • Maggie seemed to be listening to a chorus of reproach and derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • All this only increased the derision and hooting.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • He heard his sister's sufferings derided,   (source)
    derided = disrespected (as though of no importance)
  • He ... regarded it derisively.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Thereupon the captain ascended the ladder; and I ... beheld Mr. Riach turn after him and bow as low as to his knees in what was plainly a spirit of derision.   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • What unspeakable glory it would be, if they could recognise him, and realise that the derided mock king of the slums and back alleys was become a real King,   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • From above came an unceasing babble of tongues, over all of which rang the mother's derisive laughter.   (source)
    derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
  • asked Silver derisively.   (source)
    derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.   (source)
    derided = laughed at or made fun of
  • And it was fine to see that astonished multitude go down on their knees and beg their lives of the king they had just been deriding and insulting.   (source)
    deriding = laughing at or making fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • in derision, and using the language of the Lenape, as more intelligible to the subject of her gibes, she commenced aloud:   (source)
    derision = treating as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • Derisive laughter and cheering from...   (source)
    derisive = treating as inferior and unworthy of respect (often with mocking)
  • I'll laugh in derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment of others as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • ...with an increasing rabble surrounding the coach, deriding him, making grimaces at him, and incessantly groaning and calling out:   (source)
    deriding = laughing at or making fun of--while showing a lack of respect
  • Morris had swallowed his pride and made the effort necessary to cross the threshold of her too derisive parent   (source)
    derisive = treating him as inferior and unworthy of respect
  • And therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out in the world, and indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision.   (source)
    derision = treatment as though it is unworthy of respect
  • expressive of derision and contempt   (source)
    derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
  • The large and ugly raven in front of him let out a derisive caw.†   (source)
  • "You thought," Kote said derisively, dropping all pretense of a smile.†   (source)
  • They had left his spectacles on the crooked nose: He felt amused derision.†   (source)
  • Malfoy howled with derisive laughter; Crabbe and Goyle guffawed stupidly.†   (source)
  • The master-at-arms served up only derision.†   (source)
  • At least her sister was no longer derisive.†   (source)
  • Murtagh snorted derisively and looked away.†   (source)
  • Ginny screamed with derisive laughter, trying to push Harry out of the way.†   (source)
  • A football boy yelled something derisive, but the people kept singing.†   (source)
  • Boris pursed his lips in his old derisive manner.†   (source)
  • Mazhor— one of his several derisive nicknames for me—meant "Major" in Russian.†   (source)
  • Hermione's terrified look vanished as she let out a derisive snort.†   (source)
  • Her derision was even harder to confront than her anger.†   (source)
  • They both bowed, but the movement was insolent and derisive.†   (source)
  • Even the wind seemed to whistle with derision as it came skirling through the Moon Door.†   (source)
  • 'Big and wearing cloaks,' repeated Madam Bones coolly, while Fudge snorted derisively.†   (source)
  • K laughed then, though gently and without any tone of derision.†   (source)
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