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Example sentences for: derided

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) The only aspect of The Bone Collector that can't be derided is Washington.
For instance, add- illo to a respected lawyer, abogado , and you have an ignorant one, un abogadillo . The small-town mentality is derided in the use of aldeanismo , an aldea being a `small village.
For months, critics have derided Disney's plans to clean up Times Square as mere Disneyfication.
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.
These films have been derided as "teensploitation," but I don't think the description is fair.