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Example sentences for: deride

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They deride these as "political decisions" and mock NATO for refusing to bomb Milosevic's palace because it contains cultural treasures, including a Rembrandt.
Didn't we used to deride the Soviet Union for putting those who expressed unpopular (albeit despicable) views in mental institutions?
He's there to deride him for having a genteel wife, Marion (Emily Watson), a baby daughter, and a job snapping pictures for an ad agency--and to remind him that once, in the '60s, they shared an ambition to escape such soul-quashing homogeneity.
And while it may be foolish to deride secularism as hollow, it's not particularly risky--not in a nation of Indians.
Reviewers don't quarrel much with the biography's slant, though they almost all deride it as "mean-spirited."