Примери за derided

• 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.

• Some folks who make the switch are derided as pretentious by siblings and childhood friends.

• The colonial texts regularly derided the manual system and called for its abolition.

• Enthusiasms are derided: evironmentalists are tree-huggers and live in twigloos, computer devotees are nerds and wonks, and practically anyone, it seems, can be an anorak.

• This criticism gained strength from the report's relatively heavy emphasis on 'lifestyle' factors in the determination of health status - an emphasis derided as a 'blame the victim' strategy.

• After noting the abundance, the editor derided the fact that so much was left untapped, concluding that under a strong government, this wealth would have been fully developed.

• During his own day he was regularly derided for various reasons by, among others, two rhetorically brilliant, highly partisan writers who openly insulted males on a fairly regular basis.

• The opposition would not tend to die out as quickly as it actually does, with its most ardent supporters being derided as fanatics, often by their co-religionists.