verb
definition
To harshly mock; ridicule.
Examples of deride in a Sentence
While there was much to admire in TPM, there was also, alas, much to deride.
However the true error is made by those who deride the supposed cretins, morons and seven year olds.
Meanwhile newly-conquered England had its own problems to solve; and Germany, torn by civil war, and not naturally quick to kindle, could only deride the "delirium" of the crusader.'
The upholders of such a theory would, in general, deride the term `"metaphysics" or "ontology"; but it is evident, none the less, that their position itself implies a certain theory of the universe and of our own place in it, and the establishment of this theory constitutes their metaphysics.
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime, Rise and deride this sepulcher of crime.