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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
deride .
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Examples
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Palin derides the "enlightened elite," a tactic of American populists dating to Andrew Jackson.
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McCain derides Obama for being wrong on the surge but has McCain admitted to being wrong on Iraq?
Obama Says Iraq Security Improved - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Palin derides ‘elites,’ but then says she rejects labels. »
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“Tithing derides consumer Christianity, with its focus on what God can do for you,” Reid proclaims.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The financial incentives which he derides did fuel the Consumption that produced the Boom.
Debating Rubinomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The distinction between "between" and "among," for example, which he derides, is both logical and useful.
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He derides Giffords as "fake," language more reminiscent of Holden Caulfield than Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Was it tragedy in Tucson? Or terrorism? Daniel L. Byman 2011
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The rape apologist babbles on about a US/Israel nuclear war and then derides others for their comments.
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"A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue" (Proverbs 11: 12).
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"A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue" (Proverbs 11: 12).
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