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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.
If Time magazine were half the trend-spotter it thinks it is, that's the banner it would run to mark the triumph of Reaganism, transforming the United States into the kind of South American nation we used to deride.
Which of the following are actual prewritten questions from G.W.'s official list, and which are merely crude attempts to mock and deride him?
Hawks deride Clinton for having let squeamish NATO partners such as Italy and Germany curtail the early stages of the war.
Yet it is fashionable to deride this nation-builder as a drunk autocrat.