deride

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To not mock, deride, and belittle for entertainment.

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  1. transitive verb To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth. See Synonyms at ridicule.

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  • And Quadrant, the very constructivist arguments Windschuttle and this essay deride are used in your own climate-change denial articles! —  PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
  • We should approach this more cautiously than we have and not be so quick to deride or it may backfire. —  Blog for Democracy
  • Does Homnick stand with those who deride, and ridicule, Reagan's SDI as "Star Wars?" —  The American Spectator
  • Depends on the attitude about any said religion, as your attitude here has shown you are here to mock, deride, and belittle the LDS church, and have an agenda to push, an obsessed need to put down the LDS faith.
  • Convergence is one of those industry buzzwords that cynics love to deride, much like media neutrality or multi-platform.
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin dērīdēre : dē-, de- + rīdēre, to laugh at.

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  1. = Old French derider, derire, French dial. dérire = Italian deridere, diridere, from Latin deridere, mock, laugh at, from de- + ridere, laugh: see ridicule, risicle. Cf. arride.
 

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