All 7 Uses of
deride
in
Tender is the Night
- They had brought a new umbrella that they set up with side glances toward the Divers, and crept under with satisfied expressions—all save Mr. McKisco, who remained derisively without.†
Chpt 1.4
- Rosemary, as dewy with belief as a child from one of Mrs. Burnett's vicious tracts, had a conviction of homecoming, of a return from the derisive and salacious improvisations of the frontier.†
Chpt 1.7
- "Of all the narrow-minded excuses," McKisco looked around to establish a derisive liaison with some one else, but without success.
Chpt 1.7 *derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
- An instinct made Dick suck back the grave derision that formed on his tongue; he asked the waiter to find out who they were.†
Chpt 1.22
- As he trudged up to his hotel in a borrowed raincoat he kept laughing derisively in his throat.†
Chpt 2.9
- She turned from him as he walked beside her but the smile still flickered across her face, derisive and remote.†
Chpt 2.15
- He had no intention of attending so much as a single session of the congress—he could imagine it well enough, new pamphlets by Bleuler and the elder Forel that he could much better digest at home, the paper by the American who cured dementia praecox by pulling out his patient's teeth or cauterizing their tonsils, the half-derisive respect with which this idea would be greeted, for no more reason than that America was such a rich and powerful country.†
Chpt 2.16
Definition:
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(deride) to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor