deridein a sentence
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She relentlessly mocks and derides the younger students.derides = criticizes with strong disrespect
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Every president is subject to much derision on the late-night talk shows.derision = critical disrespect that is humorous
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She derides heterosexuals as breeders.derides = makes fun of
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She derided him as hormone-ravaged.derided = made fun of
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When she spoke of cost-effectiveness, he derided her as a climate denier.derided = criticized with strong disrespect
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When she spoke of fairness, he derided her as a bleeding heart liberal.
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The Jew stood before him, expecting another handful of derision, but he watched with everyone else as Hans Hubermann held his hand out and presented a piece of bread, like magic. (source)derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respectstandard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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He gave a short, derisive laugh. (source)derisive = mocking (treating as inferior)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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Teabing stared at her for several seconds and scoffed derisively. (source)derisively = in a way that treated the comment as a joke
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...they derided the greenhorns ignorance in mistaking the animal he killed for a moose. (source)derided = laughed at or made fun of--while showing a lack of respect
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His children deride him. (source)deride = laugh at or made fun of
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...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
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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
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Now, when I study 'pon it, I think de straight road de best, deridedly.† (source)
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Cooper, in his second novel, "The Spy," boldly chose an American setting and American characters, and though the influence of his wife, who came of a Loyalist family, caused him to avoid any direct attack upon the English, he attacked them indirectly, and with great effect, by opposing an immediate and honorable success to their derisions.† (source)
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I soon mastered those fits, as I deridingly called them. (source)deridingly = laughingly while dismissing them as unimportant
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