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Sentence count:61Posted:2016-12-13Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: ridiculeSimilar words: derisivedivisionrevisiondecisionenvisionprovisioncollisiondisillusionMeaning: [dɪ'rɪʒn]  n. 1. contemptuous laughter 2. the act of deriding or treating with contempt. 
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31. The Jospin administration's job-creating brainchild was greeted with hoots of derision when it was announced in 1997.
32. Great achievements require confidence and always meet with criticism, often with derision.
33. A phoenix-like ascension has been threatened before, over these last long 16 years of derision and scorn.
34. To smirk or laugh in contempt or derision.
35. The third way died in vacuity and derision.
36. Children dread the derision of their playmates.
37. People will point their fingers at him with derision.
38. There was a trace of derision in her smile.
39. Tom withered him with derision!
40. Then a terrific howl of derision silenced him.
41. Then the brushes came in for derision.
42. His naive attitude provokes their derision.
43. His face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision.
44. Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
45. The man's tears can recruit to a derision and slight.
46. In his comparative study of religions, Legge exhibits his inextirpable exclusivism in his belief in Christianity; however, in his evaluation of Confucianism, he took a change from derision to respect.
47. The proposal was held in derision by members of the board.
48. We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those around us.
49. This, coupled with the fact that flying machines remained universally a subject for jeers and derision, made the brothers secretive.
50. This will be their derision In the land of Egypt.
51. An instrument of punishment no longer in use, consisting of a chair in which the offender was tied and exposed to public derision or ducked in water.
52. Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.
53. I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay , and I'll laught in derision!
54. "Lost in Translation" made a derision of the problems about Japanese people, like "short in height but prolix in speech, " cultural myopia, and rampant in the sex industry.
55. Catcall:a harsh or shrill call or whistle expressing derision or disapproval.
56. Azizov smiled[Sentencedict.com ], whether out of derision or amusement Levchenko could not tell.
57. Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
58. To express certain emotions, especially mirth, delight, or derision, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.
59. Funny that an innocuous runabout could stir such feelings of derision.
60. They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
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