All 7 Uses of
deride
in
The House of Mirth
- He had so completely ceased to consider how far this might carry him, that he had a distinct sense of disappointment when she turned on him a face sparkling with derision.†
Chpt 1.6
- The names rang derisively through her brain.†
Chpt 1.8
- Mrs. Fisher said to Selden with a laugh; and Stepney spluttered, amid the general derision: "But she's a cousin, hang it, and when a man's married—TOWN TALK was full of her this morning."†
Chpt 1.14
- The words, flashing back on Gerty's last hours, struck from her a faint derisive murmur; but Lily, in the blaze of her own misery, was blinded to everything outside it.†
Chpt 1.14
- She met Selden's sound of protest with a sharp derisive glance.
Chpt 2.1 *derisive = treating as inferior and unworthy of respect
- She paused, and again sounded a faint note of derision.†
Chpt 2.4
- Her sense of irony never quite deserted her, and she could still note, with self-directed derision, the abnormal value suddenly acquired by the most tiresome and insignificant details of her former life.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(deride) to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor