Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who derides; a mocker; a scoffer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
derides ormocks .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though an inveterate derider of the American success myth, West is much less sanctimonious than the lefties and communists who badger him and whose utopian fantasies he resists.
Nathanael and the Damsel Molly Haskell 2010
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Though an inveterate derider of the American success myth, West is much less sanctimonious than the lefties and communists who badger him and whose utopian fantasies he resists.
Nathanael and the Damsel Molly Haskell 2010
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Though an inveterate derider of the American success myth, West is much less sanctimonious than the lefties and communists who badger him and whose utopian fantasies he resists.
Nathanael and the Damsel Molly Haskell 2010
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, βred, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,β to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Whereupon Tom arose, and giving vent thus to his grief and shame and rage, smote his derider on the nose; and made it bleed; which sent that young worthy howling to the usher, who reported Tom for violent and unprovoked assault and battery.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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She is a main derider to her capacity of those that are not her preachers, and censures all sermons but bad ones.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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I the derider of my associates, O father, but the same man to my friends when they are not present, and when I am with them.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Now just as the railer intends to injure the honor of the person he rails, the backbiter to depreciate a good name, and the tale-bearer to destroy friendship, so too the derider intends to shame the person he derides.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Therefore disregarding their entreaties he prayed unto God for the soul of the derider, and went on his way.
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[EE] "He is a great derider of schollers and censures their steeple hats for not being set on so good a blocke as his."
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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