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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To laugh at, speak of, or write about dismissively or contemptuously. synonym: ridicule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To laugh at in contempt; turn to ridicule or make sport of; mock; treat with scorn by laughter.
- Synonyms Ridicule, etc. (see
taunt ), banter, rally, jeer, gibe, scout, scoff at, insult.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To harshly
mock ;ridicule .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb treat or speak of with contempt
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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If you strove for it sincerely at any time, no matter how remote, you could never again deride it.
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The fact that someone would see that as something to deride is beyond words
Think Progress » 66. 2006
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Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the
Letter 138 1795
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All the other cable news netword deride John Stewart, but what they don't realize is that he is an incredibly intelligent person that has his finger on the pulse.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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Is it that those faculty members "deride" the story while Huckabee finds it "compelling"?
Archive 2007-12-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Is it that those faculty members "deride" the story while Huckabee finds it "compelling"?
"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" Ann Althouse 2007
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Is it that those faculty members "deride" the story while Huckabee finds it "compelling"?
"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" Ann Althouse 2007
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Ruin the economy through unregulated greed, then deride the poor guy who has to clean up the mess.
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While you cheer for one and deride the other watching the show, their minions are walking out of your back door with a wheel barrow full of cash.
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Conservatives often deride Obama over remarks he made at a presser in April of 2009, in which he said that he believes in American exceptionalism "just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
Nonstop idiocy about Obama and `American exceptionalism' Greg Sargent 2011
Related Words
synonyms (81)
Words with the same meaning
- banter
- be above
- be contemptuous of
- belittle
- care nothing for
- chaff
- contemn
- dare
- despise
- diminish
- disdain
- disparage
- disprize
- disregard
- dump on
- feel contempt for
- feel superior to
- flout
- get fresh
- get smart
- grin at
- have a nerve
- have the cheek
- have the gall
- hold beneath one
- hold cheap
- hold in contempt
- hold in derision
- insult
- jeer
- jeer at
- jolly
- kid
- knock
- laugh at
- laugh to scorn
- look down upon
- lout
- make bold
- make fun of
- make game of
- make merry with
- misprize
- mock
- pan
- pillory
- point at
- poke fun at
- pooh-pooh
- presume
- put down
- put one on
- quiz
- rag
- rally
- rank low
- razz
- rib
- ride
- ridicule
- roast
- scoff at
- scorn
- scout
- set at defiance
- set at naught
- slight
- slight over
- smile at
- sneer at
- sneeze at
- snicker at
- sniff at
- snigger at
- snort at
- take liberties
- taunt
- tease
- think nothing of
- treat with contempt
- twit
hyponyms (1)
Words more specific or concrete
forms (5)
Forms
relateds (5)
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rhymes (83)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Clyde
- Eid
- Hyde
- Outside
- Pride
- Ride
- Stateside
- abide
- allied
- alongside
- applied
- aside
- astride
- belied
- beside
- betide
- bide
- bride
- chide
- coincide
- collide
- complied
- confide
- cried
- decide
- decried
- defied
- denied
- died
- divide
- dried
- dyed
- eid
- eyed
- flied
- fried
- glide
- guide
- hide
- ide
- implied
- inside
- lied
- misapplied
- misguide
- nationwide
- outside
- oversupplied
- pied
- plied
- preside
- pride
- pried
- provide
- pryde
- relied
- replied
- reside
- retried
- ride
- seid
- shied
- side
- sighed
- slide
- snide
- spied
- stateside
- stride
- subdivide
- subside
- supplied
- tide
- tied
- tried
- untied
- untried
- upside
- vide
- vied
- westside
- wide
- worldwide
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