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 1.4derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
- 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 1.7derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
- "Of all the narrow-minded excuses," McKisco looked around to establish a derisive liaison with some one else, but without success.
Chpt 1.7 *
- 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 1.22derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
- As he trudged up to his hotel in a borrowed raincoat he kept laughing derisively in his throat.†
Chpt 2.9derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
- She turned from him as he walked beside her but the smile still flickered across her face, derisive and remote.†
Chpt 2.15derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
- 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:
to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor
with humor