How to Use deride in a Sentence

deride

verb

• Even those who deride it can’t kill their own taste for it.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• When the first part of the novel came out, in 1605, it was derided as rubbish by the Madrid elite.
  — Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• While some may deride such programs as soft on crime, the Adams plan is smart on crime.
  — Charles Fain Lehman, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
• And even though other people on the show might deride him for it, it’s done with so much love.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2022
• Last year, Jimmy Butler was sent to the Wolves in a trade the Bulls were widely derided for at the time.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 18 June 2018
• Trump’s speeches, yet most of them could reject it, or even share it in order to deride or ridicule it.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
• At minimum, the show serves as an hour to deride the maps, magic walls and needles that will inevitably rule the night.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• Hendren is a combative man of large ego who tends to deride foes.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2021
• Game over, soccer haters, there is nothing left to deride.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• But this isn’t the time to be smug toward those who derided them, Sutton and others said.
  — Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2020
• Not long ago, such talk would have been derided as churlish.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
• And the causes that the U.S. women are most derided on the right for supporting are racial justice and equal pay.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Hogan also derided the field of nine Democrats on the ballot hoping to replace him.
  — Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2018
• The genre as a whole was long derided as juvenile, the stuff of fantasy.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• When someone returned with a large kill to share, the norm was not to praise his generosity but to deride him.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• For many years, Apple was derided for the iPhone’s thick bezels — specifically, the iPhone 6, 6S, 7 and 8 — and the range could be a record breaker.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2023
• Politicians and consumer groups deride the idea as just the latest corporate feint to gouge the public.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
• In time, his opponents came to deride him as Nine-Finger.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• They are also often derided as pests and called rats with wings.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Posting emails questioning their choice to deride the people writing them is the last thing.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
• Some people derided them for testing on a postage stamp-size place.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2023
• The film didn't just receive pans from critics, it was also derided by its cast.
  — Keith Langston and Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 May 2023
• Of course, there are those quick to deride or dismiss actors like Penn stepping off the soundstage and into such roles.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• Donald Trump and his allies found a new reason to deride Mitch McConnell.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Posting emails questioning their choice in order to deride the people writing them is the last thing.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2020
• Trump’s campaign, tooled to mock, deride, and defeat Biden, is scrambling to rethink their approach to the electoral map.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 July 2024
• Some might deride that as a lack of originality, but at least he’s picked some darn good films from which to borrow.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2020
• Five years ago, having dozed through the rise of social media and smartphones, it was derided as a doddery has-been.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• But those against the proposal deride it as giving away public park space to a developer.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
• Much derided at the time, could this be another example of Trump’s intuition being correct, if not well expressed?
  — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024