deride
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From Middle French dérider, from Latin dērīdeō (“to mock, laugh at”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + rīdeō (“to laugh”).
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deride (third-person singular simple present derides, present participle deriding, simple past and past participle derided)
- (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.
- 2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Italy's eventual win was worthy of an audience filling Wembley twice over, the joy of Mancini and his players a brutal contrast to the despair of much-derided Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who had actually rescued them with an equaliser in normal time after Federico Chiesa's superb opener for Italy.
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- See also Thesaurus:ridicule
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to harshly mock; ridicule
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- “deride”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “deride”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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dērīdē
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