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Example sentences for: deride

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Oddly, borak was coupled with the verb poke in the phrase to poke borak at , meaning to deride, and this was close enough to the transitive use of the verb barrack ridicule, jeer at, verbally abuse to suggest that the two might be connected.
I don't deride this at all.
Yet it is fashionable to deride this nation-builder as a drunk autocrat.
Sounds like the usual liberal tactic of attempting (desperately) to deride what you can't really disprove.
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.