| I watched him perform a song and dance in something like minstrel fashion atop the school tables, evenhandedly deriding his audience and himself. |
| Many food trends have come and gone since she became famous, and she remained unmoved, deriding the anti-butterfat lobby and other bores. |
| She said this with such refined irony that her husband did not detect that she was deriding him. |
| And President Bush had more than his fair share of detractors, mocking and deriding him for not focusing on his job. |
| He was deriding the Anthropological Society's attempts to categorise humanity into inferior and superior races based on physical appearance. |
| She was glamorous with the material elegance that always ended by deriding him. |
