All 4 Uses of
deride
in
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- (NICK laughs derisively) You disgust me on principle, and you're a smug son of a bitch personally, but I'm trying to give you a survival kit.†
Act 2
- GEORGE (Derisively) Oh, boy!†
Act 2
- NICK (Derisively) Oh, for God's sake ….†
Act 3
- . . . the one thing I've tried to carry pure and unscathed through the sewer of this marriage; through the sick nights, and the pathetic, stupid days, through the derision and the laughter . . .
Act 3 *derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
Definition:
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(deride) to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor