Both Uses of
deride
in
Robinson Crusoe
- I soon mastered those fits, as I deridingly called them.
*deridingly = laughingly while dismissing them as unimportant
- We were five and twenty days travelling thro' this miserable country, infinitely populous, but as indifferently cultivated; and yet their pride is infinitely greater than their poverty, insomuch that they priests themselves derided them.†
Definition:
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(deride) to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor