All 4 Uses of
deride
in
East of Eden
- Within itself, if you do not hold it up to other things for comparison and derision, you'll find slowly, surely, a reason and a logic and a kind of dreadful beauty.†
Chpt 3derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
- " Louis said half derisively and half with admiration, "He's always thinking about how to change things.†
Chpt 13derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect
- She cackled at him derisively.†
Chpt 31
- And now he did laugh, but not in derision.
Chpt 41 *derision = a manner that treats as inferior and unworthy of respect
Definition:
to criticize with strong disrespect -- often
with humor
with humor