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 2derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
- GEORGE (Derisively) Oh, boy!†
Act 2
- NICK (Derisively) Oh, for God's sake .... MARTHA: ...George who is out somewhere there in the dark ....George who is good to me, and whom I revile; who understands me, and whom I push off; who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me, at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood; who keeps learning the games we play as quickly as I can change the rules; who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy, and, yes, I do wish to be happy.†
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:
to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor
with humor