0 the situation in which someone or something is laughed at and considered stupid or of no value -- 嘲笑，嘲諷，嘲弄
When small groups of women began kneeling in prayer outside saloons in the 1870s, they met with derision.
Students were well aware of others' mixed feelings of pity and derision towards their ongoing efforts.
In addition, its insistence on a tone of derision is surely heavy-handed if it aims at application to irony in general.
When first introduced, the device was an object of derision among many.
They became objects of elite derision and came to personify the breakdown of morality in the city's overcrowded tenements.
His lecture had, at the time, attracted little but derision.
Their private derision at the time gave way to amusement when, years later, they recalled the incident.
His spiritual quest for simplicity and serenity has often been met with critical derision and accusations of 'dumbing down'.
