Words similar to derision

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.
I also heard there was a lot of derision at the Boston screening.
The same is true of humph , a nasal snort of derision rather than something akin to what a camel has on its back.
In most households, the suggestion that members of Congress are "blue-collar people" fighting to "survive" in "the jaws of death" is more likely to elicit contempt and derision than sympathy.