| Wall Street has derided the decision to merge, giving the boards of both companies a sharp surprise. |
| Four years ago, they were derided for raising proposals to decriminalise cannabis. |
| In the process, a constellation of personal qualities has been derided and devalued, and is in the process of vanishing altogether. |
| It has been derided by some critics as straying too far from historical fact in order to show a well-polished fiction. |
| Do you get tired of being derided and dismissed by many mainstream environmental leaders? |
| It was a radical move from a First Minister derided by many as a leader of Lilliputian vision. |
