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. · Or its citizens ...

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.

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

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

He snorted in derision. The speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders. The statement was met with hoots of 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.

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

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 ...

Jason snorted in derision and crossed his arms over his chest, looking at her scathingly. Several journalists began first to sniff, then to ...