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Example sentences for: derided

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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.
) The only aspect of The Bone Collector that can't be derided is Washington.
Nancy Reagan's much derided "Just Say No" seems to have had an effect on the kids it targeted--drug use actually went down.
Today Greenberg is much derided for his dogmatic views and imperial pronouncements.
These films have been derided as "teensploitation," but I don't think the description is fair.