Both Uses of
deride
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She could not go on enduring the hidden derision.
Chpt 9 *derision = treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
- It's called 'His Mother's Heart,' and it's about a young man in college who gets in with a lot of free-thinkers and boozers and everything, but in the end his mother's influence——" Juanita Haydock broke in with a derisive, "Oh rats, Raymie!†
Chpt 18derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
Definition:
to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor
with humor