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Emilia, by contrast, is a strikingly modern figure in her cynical assessments of the hypocrisy of a culture that will deride women for sexual behavior that wouldn’t be censured in men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Today many on the right still deride the Carter years but as the decades passed, his humanitarian efforts and simple lifestyle began to shape a new legacy for many Americans.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024

Redstone went on to publicly deride McMahon’s handling of the situation, telling a crowd at New York’s Advertising Week that she would’ve done things differently.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024

Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day, the fixed annual celebration of love and friendship, marked by cute couples, eager elementary school students — and critics who deride its commercialization.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

M. M. C.’s letter is just one of many that deride Joey’s arrival.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Among the low performers are one that he derides as packed with tourists, another "with barking dogs," and a third he says is "quiet but with no one to talk to."

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

The American Mini Pig Association derides the use of terms like “teacup” as misleading and discourages promises of adult pigs under 75 pounds in its code of ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

With searing yet quiet familiarity, Victor derides the way trauma is handled with callous frigidity.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025

It’s only when Christian near the end of the play derides Cyrano’s “acres of highbrow wet dream prose” that Cyrano’s ears prick up in admiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

This tale derides the talking crew, Whose empty threats are all they do.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

Three Lions, the song written by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and the Lightning Seeds for Euro 96, has long been derided outside of England for its supposed arrogance.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The vote was widely derided by democracy monitors abroad, but China supports it as recreating a semblance of normality, analysts say.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Many on Wall Street have long derided the retail crowd as “dumb money” — a reputation largely earned during the dot-com bubble, and reinforced during the 2021 meme-stock frenzy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

They are often derided for their cost, and customers declare they will wait till the paperback comes out.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

“Yes, I understand,” Ackers said sulkily, as if his deep schooling in police matters had been derided.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

It was perhaps inevitable that judges would bristle at a government spokeswoman deriding them as hacks.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2026

He was popular, but for a long time the critics condescended to him, calling him a lightweight Sunday painter and deriding him for his “matchstick” figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

At the Border Patrol’s takeover of MacArthur Park earlier this month, Newman was there shooting video and deriding the spectacle as “a dystopian episode of ‘The Apprentice.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

The company denied the allegations, deriding them as "the latest in a stream of unevidenced and misleading attempts ... to thwart legitimate competition".

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

How I blessed those stolid, flannelled figures, for in a few minutes his face had settled back into repose, the colour had returned, and he was deriding the Surrey bowling in healthy irritation.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier