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Example sentences for: deride

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Hawks deride Clinton for having let squeamish NATO partners such as Italy and Germany curtail the early stages of the war.
Didn't we used to deride the Soviet Union for putting those who expressed unpopular (albeit despicable) views in mental institutions?
Some critics continue to deride his mammoth tomes as hopelessly pedestrian, with "the formulaic plots and the formulaic prose and the formulaic leap to the top of the best-seller list" (the New York Times ). Most critics grudgingly praise Michener's prolificacy, breezy prose, and extensive research, while gleefully bashing the snobbery of his highbrow bashers.
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.
Yet it is fashionable to deride this nation-builder as a drunk autocrat.