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How to use derision in a sentence

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She is an incredible artist who has endured public derision and scorn for well over a decade.
The show was heaped with derision for its mangling of some of the most famous lines in the English language.
The tone is deprecatory throughout, and 30 cartoons, many of which are full page, reinforce the ridicule and derision.
I don't agree with you and therefore I'm only worthy of your derision and mockery.
Maybe I've strayed off-topic here, but I think that mockery and derision is, oddly enough, part of the stuff of taking religion seriously.
In the last few years, I have noticed that derision towards anti-vaxxers has grown.
It was the supreme anthem of renunciation, of scorn, of derision at the pretensions of the ungifted and the insensitive.
At this there was a snort of derision from her friend but she continued unaware, lost in the imagination of these various events.
As to the text, I fear the reader's snorts of derision will begin early on.
Contempt and derision were now poured not upon the heretical supporters of change, but upon their orthodox opponents.
Anything less than a win will be greeted with howls of derision by a public who have grown sick of the culture of rugby mediocrity.
I've learned to treat their threats with the scorn and derision they deserve.
He presented this idea in a talk to the London Chemical Society in 1866, only to be greeted with derision.
She would never have stood by while he became a figure of scorn and derision.
Moreover, virtually every target of the film is legitimate and deserving of scorn and derision.
It is very easy for critics to pour scorn and derision on the efforts of people just trying to do what is right.
Much derision has greeted the claim by some of those in the photographs that they were inadequately trained.
He thought he heard a snort of derision from Sean but he had the attention of the rest of them.
Jason snorted in derision and crossed his arms over his chest, looking at her scathingly.
Several journalists began first to sniff, then to snort and finally to chuckle their derision.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Horse is a term of derision where an officer assumes the grandioso, demanding honour where honour is not his due.
We could look for no response but laughs of derision or the missiles of a mob.
Soon after, the mighty menaces of Caligula against them ended in mockery and derision.
I said this was not friendship, but a slavery, which was the derision of the Court.
Then there was an explosion of derision and contempt among the men of Beaudoin's company.
In the background the moon glinted in derision, and directly overhead was a splatter of callous stars.
They died in torments, and their torments were imbittered by insult and derision.
And all this for a cluster of starlike blossoms that looked over the edge of the rock above him and nodded in derision!
He desired a horse, but his conductors said, in derision, A horse for a heretic!
He was answered with a rude shout of derision, and poor croppie was pricked with the sword's point to turn her away.
But what fruits has it produced as yet, other than continued derision and derogation of dignity?
And Mrs. rusk sat down and laughed heartily, ending with a crow of derision.
When expletives occur they are generally in the spirit of derision and lampoon.
The primness of her was indescribable, and was not at all ruffled by Dan's hoot of derision.
Her letters were exposed, her expostulatory verses read at clubs and taverns, and the unhappy Sappho toasted in derision.
When he had reached his fishing ground, he heard a voice singing at a distance the following strains, in derision of him.
The echo of that derision was soon lost in the jingle of Algernon's guineas.
Again she heard the rasp of his metallic voice with its brisk derision.
But she accompanied the words with a sly glance of derision directed to me from the corner of her disingenuous eye.
But neither man nor woman, in whom good predominates, will smile or sneer, nor bid the Rogues' March be played, in derision of their array.
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