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Example sentences for: derides

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A sidebar derides the "it wasn't sex" semantic escape Clinton is reportedly considering.
Time 's caustic cover story ("War, we are shocked to discover, is not a video game") derides the White House's apparently unshaken faith in air power.
He derides the BBC and respectable newspapers as "unpopular" media subsidized by a condescending, out-of-touch gentry.
That formulation strikes me as emblematic of the very ornamental culture that Faludi derides.
The cover story derides Hillary as beloved "First Doormat": H.R.C.