Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: derision
IPA transcription: [dɚ'ɪʒən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: derision
    Meaning: contemptuous laughter
Usage examples
  • If a boy declined to ride, there would be shouts of derision.
  • SATAN beheld thir plight, And to his Mates thus in derision call'd.
  • Ability to write well, if the writer has nothing to write about, entitles him to mere derision.
  • the children and mob crowding about him, so that he can hardly stir, make all the noise they can in derision of him."
  • If the obscenity laws are not radically revised or repealed, few reactionaries will dare to face the public derision that will greet their attempts to use them to stay woman's progress.
  • Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long, skinny arm, in derision, and using the language of the Lenape, as more intelligible to the subject of her gibes, she commenced aloud:
  • When he perceived again that it was not possible for the army to be defeated, he tried to bethink him of a fine tale which he could take back to his regiment, and with it turn the expected shafts of derision.
  • For a short while the world outside of Menlo Park held Edison's claims in derision. His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor.