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Kelly Sue DeConnick

If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!

American Writer

Margaret Hoover

Conservatives believe that a self-governing society depends on individuals taking responsibility for their actions, and those of their family and community. They deride others, especially American liberals, who fall short of this standard, who blame anything other than themselves for personal transgressions or failures.

American Author

Aldous Huxley

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

English Novelist

Nick Foles

I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.

American Athlete

Charlotte Lamb

War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

British Novelist

Kirsten Powers

I derided Christians as anti-intellectual bigots who were too weak to face the reality that there is no rhyme or reason to the world.

Elvis Mitchell

For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

American Critic

Patricia Routledge

People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life.

English Actress

Howard Jacobson

Passionate dissent from the will of the multitude should be respected, not derided.

John Lothrop Motley

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

American Historian

Using 'deride' suggests strong disapproval and might offend, so use it carefully.

Negative Connotation

'Deride' means not just to laugh but also to dismiss as unworthy or ridiculous.

More than Laughter

Often used when discussing professional critiques of work, ideas, or performances.

Contextual Use

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Stories of Exploration...

 showing that mysterious phenomena, such as the photoelectric effect, could be explained by his hypothesis. The idea was derided for years to come, but Einstein was simply twenty years ahead of his time.

Einstein's miracle year...

 he derided me for being so naive. Looked me in the eye, fear consuming his face, and said, "Son, I'm sorry, but you can't act the same as your white friends. You can't pretend to shoot guns.

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