derides in English

verb

1

express contempt for; ridicule.

critics derided the proposals as clumsy attempts to find a solution

synonyms: ridicule, mock, scoff at, jibe at, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, hold up to ridicule, pillory, disdain, disparage, denigrate, dismiss, slight, sneer at, scorn, insult, knock, pooh-pooh

verb

ridicule, mock, scoff at, jibe at, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, hold up to ridicule, pillory, disdain, disparage, denigrate, dismiss, slight, sneer at, scorn, insult, knock, pooh-pooh

Use "derides" in a sentence

1. Putin Derides Sanctions and Trump Investigations as ‘Boorishness’ Russian President Vladimir V

2. Synonyms for Chaffs include teases, derides, joshes, kids, mocks, rags, ribs, guys, razzes and ridicules

3. Blasphemer meaning One who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God.

4. Burundi ex-leader rejects life sentence for murder Pierre Buyoya derides the court sentence handed down for the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye in 1993

5. ‘He sticks to Cartesianism with a passion and derides any attempt to derive music from experience.’ ‘But this is entirely different from the sort of justification demanded by Cartesianism.’ ‘He thus destroyed the contradictory and confusing dualism in Cartesianism and established mechanical empiricism.’

6. Rosenfeld derides the interviewed subjects of the book for "not driven by anything remotely like reasoned historical analysis, but rather by a complex range of psychological as well as political motives that subvert reason and replace it with something akin to hysteria".