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Definition
to criticize with strong disrespect — often
with humor
with humor
- And it was fine to see that astonished multitude go down on their knees and beg their lives of the king they had just been deriding and insulting.Chapter 38 (88% in)
deriding = laughing at or making fun of—while showing a lack of respect
- Surprise and astonishment flashed from face to face all over the house; the queen's gratified smile faded out at the name of Sir Kay, and she looked disappointed; and the page whispered in my ear with an accent and manner expressive of extravagant derision— "Sir Kay, forsooth!Chapter 3 (25% in)
- I was far from expecting ever to belong to him, for the price asked for me from the time I was first enslaved was exorbitant, and always provoked either anger or derision, yet my master stuck stubbornly to it—twenty-two dollars.Chapter 36 (32% in)
- They drowned me out with joyous derision.Chapter 38 (43% in)
There are no more uses of "deride" in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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