All 7 Uses of
deride
in
War and Peace
- Whether he noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre's terror-stricken face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride his own helplessness.†
Chpt 1
- "I saw him myself," replied the man with a self-confident smile of derision.†
Chpt 3
- With a childlike smile of embarrassment, doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands.†
Chpt 5
- Bilibin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and self-derision genuinely Russian.†
Chpt 5
- Napoleon was silent, still looking derisively at him and evidently not listening to him.
Chpt 9 *derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
- Four days ago in this room, Wintzingerode and Stein were deliberating," continued Napoleon with the same derisive and self-confident smile.†
Chpt 9
- A shrewd, kindly, yet subtly derisive expression lit up Kutuzov's podgy face.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(deride) to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor