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deriding

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de·ride  (d-rd)
tr.v. de·rid·ed, de·rid·ing, de·rides
To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth. See Synonyms at ridicule.
[Latin drdre : d-, de- + rdre, to laugh at.]
de·rider n.
de·riding·ly adv.
Translations
deriding
adj → spöttisch, höhnisch


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And it was fine to see that astonished multitude go down on their knees and beg their lives of the king they had just been deriding and insulting.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
France began by deriding the pretensions of the Americans.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
But there is no reason to suppose that he is deriding them, any more than he is deriding the phenomena of love or of enthusiasm in the Symposium, or of oracles in the Apology, or of divine intimations when he is speaking of the daemonium of Socrates.
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