derision

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Pronunciation

/dɪˈɹɪʒən/(UK)

Definition of derision

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)Act of treating with disdain.

“There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.”
“One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)Act of treating with disdain.

“There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.”
“One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.”
(countable, uncountable)Something to be derided; a laughing stock.

“Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]”

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From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").

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