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Example sentences for: deride

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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.
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.
Yet it is fashionable to deride this nation-builder as a drunk autocrat.
I don't deride this at all.
The complex and fluid developments in the European Community, between English and eight other languages, have been labeled in at least four ingeniously pejorative ways, as Eurolish, Eurospeak, Desperanto, and Minglish (the first two also used to denote and deride Common Market bureaucratese, the third to catch the confusion that can arise among simultaneous translators).