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Example sentences for: derided

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Nancy Reagan's much derided "Just Say No" seems to have had an effect on the kids it targeted--drug use actually went down.
In his 1755 Dictionary , Samuel Johnson derided the idea that a dictionary "can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation."
For months, critics have derided Disney's plans to clean up Times Square as mere Disneyfication.
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.
After Dutch became available, Peggy Noonan derided it as "a base botch of a book ...