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How to use deride in a sentence

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Those entrenched enough to deride as fools or quislings anyone who questions war may also be more prone to edit events to fit their version.
They speak of freedom and democracy, and our way of life and our values, and they deride those who reason why.
The painter proved once again yesterday that, while critics might deride it, the public can't get enough of his work.
Who, after all, could deride the allocation of funding to the process of conquering the problems associated with those issues?
Officialdom decides to employ their minions to deride the credibility of all who oppose them.
Being a spoof on a spoof might be cleverish, but I suspect that the only audience it will find is the audience that it seeks to deride.
The liberals deride him as a turncoat while the right tentatively seeks to claim him.
So I didn't ridicule or deride contributions, and published most emails critical of me, my style, and my substance.
Critics deride him as a publicity hound and his combative character has alienated fellow lawyers in previous class actions.
It's this cavalcade of architectural styles, all stopping around 1850, that the critics deride for being twee.
People who deride the poor for laziness are out of touch with the difficulty of finding decent jobs.
Australians love to deride tall poppies, and that's all very well, I love doing it myself.
All serious analysts of crime deride this as at best ignorant and at worst dishonest.
Thirty years of Foucauldian postmodern critique has led to arguments that either ignore such laws or deride them as evil.
He would mock and deride them relentlessly, not stopping until they cried.
The worst thing you could do would be to laugh at him or deride him.
These questions are not meant to mock or deride anyone's beliefs.
It is not appropriate for us to deride the conscientious attempt of the State party to reach a just result in this case.
Many people deride the idea of food security as if such an idea belongs to the dark ages.
Fans worship or deride him with the same emotional energy they give to U. S. presidents.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Others were derided by their contemporaries, as we deride the made-to-order coat of arms of some nineteenth century upstart.
Ye who pray for what God in His infinite mercy has granted, do ye mock and deride Him?
They fear the world will mock them and deride When they are stripped of all their golden state.
You will, no doubt, deride it as practical, but to my mind it is very much to the point.
Therefore we should not deride the man who writes himself Smythe.
Which is why I loathe this growing wave of poppy fascism, whereby tin-pot dictators deride nonwearers as insulters of the dead.
They taunt and deride him, whereof three samples are again given.
Standing outside, we deride or oppose it, or at the most feel sentimental.
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