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Example sentences for: derision

How can you use “derision” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Too young to remember the ordinary clothes of the previous era, they regarded huge bustles, sweeping trains, lofty coiffures, and tightly laced waists with a ferocious derision born of dread.
It's that the caricatures are grounded in sympathy instead of derision.
From him we learn how indecision Of character provokes derision.
Or the voice suddenly shifting from silky to raspy when derision erupts from his muddled emotions?
Praise also goes to comedian Mike Nichols' film-acting debut: His "timing is flawless, his speech peppered with strange pauses through which we grasp the full weight of his irony, derision, and sheer incredulity at the peculiarity of the human phenomena that surround him" (Leslie Camhi, the Village Voice ). (Slate's Sarah Kerr argues that the movie is merely pretentious.)