derision · The team's awful record has made it an object of derision in the league. · One of the students laughed in derision at my error. · The losses mounted, ...

6 дней назад · Examples of derision · When small groups of women began kneeling in prayer outside saloons in the 1870s, they met with derision. · Students were ...

Other forms: derisions. If people are laughing at you, making fun of you, and acting as if you're worthless, they're treating you with derision.

noun · ridicule; mockery: The inept performance elicited derision from the audience. · an object of ridicule.

Her speech was greeted with howls of derision. He became an object of universal derision. Extra Examples. His mouth twisted in derision; He snorted in derision.

If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them. He tried to calm them, but was greeted with shouts of derision.

The governor's plan was greeted with derision [=ridicule] by most journalists and pundits. One of the students laughed/snorted in derision at my error. The ...

Behind his head, a grimy window overlooking Somerville's Main Street seemed to glower with derision. Joyce Carol Oates. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE.

When he had reached his fishing ground, he heard a voice singing at a distance the following strains, in derision of him.