to show that you think someone or something is ridiculous or of no value:
Deride
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To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn toridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14.Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both hissides. Milton.
Deride meaning & definition 1 of Deride.
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to subject to ridicule contemptuously
Deride meaning & definition 2 of Deride.
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Express contempt for; ridicule.
Deride meaning & definition 3 of Deride.
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