All 5 Uses
deride
in
Passing, by Nella Larsen
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- How savagely she had clawed those boys the day they had hooted her parent and sung a derisive rhyme, of their own composing, which pointed out certain eccentricities in his careening gait!†
p. 11.3derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
- And," with faint derision, "safe."†
p. 68.8derision = critical disrespect -- typically while laughing at or making fun of
- Irene passed over that touch of derision, for the poignant rebellion of the other's words had brought the tears to her own eyes, though she didn't allow them to fall.†
p. 68.8 *
- She remembered the not quite derisive smile with which Brian had cloaked his vexation when she informed him—oh, so apologetically—that she had promised to take Clare, and related the conversation of her visit.†
p. 75.1derisive = contemptuous (treating as inferior and unworthy of respect)
- Never since his faintly derisive surprise at Irene's information that she was to go with them the night of the dance, had he shown any disapproval of Clare's presence.†
p. 81.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(deride) to criticize with strong disrespect -- often with humor
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)