derided

Object

• idea: More recently artists derided the ideas from statistical physics and countered by producing " Art of the Absurd " .

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 ' .

Modifying Another Word

• universally: Slot machines are universally derided; yet many give a better chance of winning than the Lotto.
• 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.

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.