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What does deride mean?

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  1. (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.
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People who deride the poor for laziness are out of touch with the difficulty of finding decent jobs.
So I didn't ridicule or deride contributions, and published most emails critical of me, my style, and my substance.
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.
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?

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