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Definition
to criticize with strong disrespect — often
with humor
with humor
- . . . 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 . . .3 — Act 3 (79% in)
derision = critical disrespect — typically while laughing at or making fun of
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)
- (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.2 — Act 2 (34% in)
- GEORGE (Derisively) Oh, boy!2 — Act 2 (49% in)
- NICK (Derisively) Oh, for God's sake ....3 — Act 3 (15% in)
There are no more uses of "deride" in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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