Deride

These questions are not meant to mock or deride anyone’s beliefs.

The painter proved once again yesterday that, while critics might deride it, the public can’t get enough of his work.

He would mock and deride them relentlessly, not stopping until they cried.

So I didn’t ridicule or deride contributions, and published most emails critical of me, my style, and my substance.

The worst thing you could do would be to laugh at him or deride him.

Four years ago, they were derided for raising proposals to decriminalise cannabis.

Why does the man of understanding not respond to the derider ? Because the derider will turn his derision on him or continue the original derision against him.

Critics have derided the event as perpetuating a ‘tartan and shortbread’ image.

Do you get tired of being derided and dismissed by many mainstream environmental leaders?

Many food trends have come and gone since she became famous, and she remained unmoved,deriding the anti-butterfat lobby and other bores.

Wall Street has derided the decision to merge, giving the boards of both companies a sharp surprise.

Will the inane chatter so derided by blogging critics start to dry up?

It has been derided by some critics as straying too far from historical fact in order to show a well-polished fiction.

The other parties have derided the proposal as a plan for a ‘fantasy island’.

How can I recommend a film that is not only ridiculed by most fans, but also derided by most of the stars of the film?

It is certainly not a quality that should be derided or dismissed as trite – it can be studied, and it can be learned.

His nationalism was as expansive as his cosmopolitanism, and he railed in equal measure against the narrowness of native deriders of Scotland and the shallowness of Anglophobia.

For centuries women like me have been derided , scorned and ostracised.

Scotland’s newest soap opera has had a shaky start, derided by the critics for its wooden scripts and dull characters.

Long derided by critics, he has fought artistic battles before.

Some critics have derided his work as dumbed-down and self-aggrandising.