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Example sentences for: deride

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And while it may be foolish to deride secularism as hollow, it's not particularly risky--not in a nation of Indians.
Didn't we used to deride the Soviet Union for putting those who expressed unpopular (albeit despicable) views in mental institutions?
Participants have until Sunday to mock and deride the AFI's Greatest Legends List of movie stars by devising a TV Guide -style plot summary of a movie in which an unlikely yet equally ranked pair--for instance Kirk Douglas and Lillian Gish are both rated No.
The writing is easy to read and colloquial (by which I mean it contains the classic solecisms that purists deride).
And he goes on to deride macroeconomics for its "illusion that it could make the whole system run smoothly almost regardless of how the economy's underlying sectors functioned.