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Definition
to criticize with strong disrespect — often
with humor
with humor
- Her brothers predictably balked at this and made derisive comments regarding the desirability of holding Hester's panties—under any circumstances.p. 123.1
- It was not just that he was a better student, or a better driver, or so philosophically sure of himself; here was someone I had grown up with, and had grown used to teasing—I had picked him up over my head and passed him back and forth, I had derided his smallness as surely as the other children had— and yet, suddenly, by the time he was sixteen, he appeared in command.p. 290.4
There are no more uses of "deride" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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