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Example sentences for: derided

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Those events, too, were derided in advance as wasteful and stupid.
After Dutch became available, Peggy Noonan derided it as "a base botch of a book ...
They've derided a government brief as proof that "poorly informed lawyers have no vocation for software design."
America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, derided by al Qaeda as "your agents."
Once upon a time, Republicans derided Clinton for fantasizing that in order to win forgiveness, he first had to find a way to forgive his enemies.