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Example sentences for: derided

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The paper says that Republicans quickly derided the plan as a big government strategy that unfairly preempts across-the-board tax cuts.
But isn't this ubiquitous propagandizing what we mocked and derided when the Soviets did it?
They've derided a government brief as proof that "poorly informed lawyers have no vocation for software design."
For months, critics have derided Disney's plans to clean up Times Square as mere Disneyfication.
After Dutch became available, Peggy Noonan derided it as "a base botch of a book ...