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Another word for derision

Noun

  1. Words or actions intended to evoke contemptuous laughter

    2. See also:

    respect

    laughter

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Another word for derision

Noun
    2. See also:

    ridicule

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Sentence Examples

  • I concluded that he laughed in derision of my efforts, confident of his own resources.

  • The applause of the vulgar was mingled with the derision of the court party.

  • The name, as has often been the case with party designations, was at first given in derision, and by an enemy.

  • Ingrid made a sound of derision.

  • The crowd greeted their arrival with mockery and derision, and being treated as the envoys of heretics they escaped without having obtained a hearing.

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