0 past simple and past participle of deride
1 to laugh at someone or something in a way that shows you think they are stupid or of no value:
The recovery of the euro did belie critics who had initially derided it as a weak currency.
The grotteschi were often derided by contemporaries (typically the literati, for the style was highly popular with the public) as vulgar buffoons.
His proposal was quickly derided and dismissed by the great powers.
An approaching sister-in-law may be derided sotto voce as a 'balla' (monster) or 'badda' (bad), before being greeted cordially.
Derided by critics as medieval and degrading, the veil allows women to draw their own lines in dividing public activities from private life.
On the one hand, the formidable traditional forces arrayed against it are explained and derided.
He derided the effort, stating that they were too low in quality to be useful.
He derided authority, mocking it, chastening it, and inviting us to laugh at our own reverence for it and for the author himself.
