Derided

Quick meaning: Derided is an adjective meaning Disparaged; subject to criticism or mockery.

Meaning

Disparaged; subject to criticism or mockery.

More Meanings

1. simple past and past participle of deride

Example Sentences

There is nothing more derided than the raptures of a young affection.

Moreover, the legacy of anti-Asian racism has meant that even relatively modest efforts on foreign policy have been, as Paul Watanabe notes, "more discouraged than encouraged, more derided than applauded."

[…] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mocked, scorned, ridiculed, disparaged, lambasted, lampooned.

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