deride

Object

• idea: More recently artists derided the ideas from statistical physics and countered by producing " Art of the Absurd " .
• report: The Guardian's news value was in the headline, ' Experts deride report on crime and moral decline ' .
• man: Feminism, in its truest form isn't about hating and deriding men, or ruling the world.
• notion: It is fashionable these days to deride the very notion of Britishness, but the concept has a meaning and has a date.
• nation: African countries that deride donor nations for attaching conditions to any aid agreements are light years away from reality.
• people: Just because you are unable to sustain a discussion for more than a paragraph, it is no need to deride people who can.

Subject

• critic: Derided by the critics, this show has managed to turn their petty words into straw with contemptuous ease.
• economist: These works were derided by the mainstream economists when given any attention at all.

Preposition: as

sort: The name was derided as the sort of marketing exercise that saw the Russian colony of East Germany called a ` Democratic Republic ' .

Adjective complement

rapid: Don't be intimidated by anyone who derides rapid e-learning as just a cheap and cheerful alternative to paying full whack.

Modifying Another Word

• universally: Slot machines are universally derided; yet many give a better chance of winning than the Lotto.
• openly: Equally, only a few months ago, some currency traders were openly deriding the euro.
• widely: The widely derided exemptions for pubs and clubs must now be dropped from the Health Bill.
• once: With the recent dollar falls there now exists parity with the once derided euro.
• often: Not only sobbing, for which he isn't often derided today.
• much: The subject matter is the much derided coastal landscape of Essex.

Used with why or when

what: I am well aware that there are those who will deride what I have said so far as mere hypothesis or high-sounding sentiment.

Preposition: by

• critic: Derided by the critics, this show has managed to turn their petty words into straw with contemptuous ease.
• economist: These works were derided by the mainstream economists when given any attention at all.