Derision is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DERISION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of deriding
• contemptuous ridicule or mockery
• The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
• An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
• contemptuous laughter
• the act of deriding or treating with contempt
• act of deriding

Words related to DERISION

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Words that contain DERISION

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How to use DERISION in a sentence

• Nobody had followed him, or nothing would have induced him to risk the derision of the camp.
• Well, let the others hold us in derision and contempt if they choose.
• Some, who pretend to be my Friends, tell me they do it in Derision, and would advise me to leave it off, withal that I make my self ridiculous.
• But really to love an opera-dancer was a scandal for derision, moving all the Courts of the Empire to scorn.
• Three hearty American cheers were now given in mingled triumph and derision.
• Let him refuse, in the face of derision, and reproach, and opposition.
• At least, let us hope that we shall all live to see these absurd books about Success covered with a proper derision and neglect.
• The shouts of derision were more than Megget could stand.
• Edward, as some have called him, in derision I suppose, being a very silly fellow, had all the faults incident, and almost inseparable, to fools.
• If we pause sooner, we slide down by our own weight, an object of universal derision.
• The comparative purity of Englishmen and Americans is still a wonder, and often a derision to foreigners.
• Singing songs of triumph, of derision of all their enemies, they started to run down the awful lane of death.
• Across the red patch of embers his eyes gazed steadily at her with the familiar gleam of derision.
• They found themselves exposed to the derision of the public.
• We must submit to abuse, and I sincerely pardon all those who expose me to the derision of the world by depicting me as a martial Joan of Arc.
• The moment I appeared, or rather the moment the door closed behind me, I was hailed with a shout of derision.
• Howls and shouts of derision echoed from the shore.
• Certain of the captains, and certain even of the people, treated them with derision.
• Where he hailed from the sight of it had for years provoked only demonstrations of derision and dislike.
• Cash hesitated, derision hiding in the back of his eyes.
• As we passed the vessels that had come to anchor there was a howling and yelling from them of derision and anger at us for going by them.
• Mohammed had a great aversion to the first, because the Jews frequently used it in derision, it being a word of reproach in their tongue.
• The climber might lie in wait through the bad weather at the base of the peak, seize upon his chance and stand upon the summit with a cry of triumph and derision.
• Wild howls of derision and exultation went up from the Jews.
• The boys shouted in derision, but Phipps did not come back, and the stranger was the hero.
• You may waste it to a shadow, and then introduce it into the society of flesh and blood an object of scorn and derision.

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