Both Uses of
deride
in
City of Bones
- It was a derisive sort of cough, the kind of noise someone might make who was trying not to laugh out loud.
Chpt 3 *derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
- Spiderwebbing cracks fissured the glass-that-was-not-glass; the last thing Clary heard before the Portal dissolved into a deluge of ragged shards was Valentine's derisive laughter.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor
with humor