“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.”

“The painter proved once again yesterday that, while critics might deride it, the public can't get enough of his work.”

“So I didn't ridicule or deride contributions, and published most emails critical of me, my style, and my substance.”

“He derides Philoponus as an opsimath for not seeing that we must try to uncover the deeper agreements behind the surface inconcinnities.”

“He derides the parents as philistine consumerists unduly concerned with their children's earning potentials.”

“He sticks to Cartesianism with a passion and derides any attempt to derive music from experience.”

“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 was a radical move from a First Minister derided by many as a leader of Lilliputian vision.”

“He was deriding the Anthropological Society's attempts to categorise humanity into inferior and superior races based on physical appearance.”

“Many food trends have come and gone since she became famous, and she remained unmoved, deriding the anti-butterfat lobby and other bores.”

“Indeed, Derrida would spend a great deal of effort deriding Sartrean existentialism as a misconstrual of Heidegger.”