You don't suppose that when God or Nature or the First Cause created that ore vein a million years ago he had Dobyans Verinder in mind as the owner," derided Kilmeny.
Didn't know you were subject to nerve attacks, Miss Dwight," derided Verinder uneasily.
In 1754 the possibility of a permanent federation of American states was derided as an idle dream of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson.
As a schoolboy I used to hear the belief in the existence of such a poet derided as "uncritical" and "unscholarly.
This derided Smithers lived on the ground floor of the Palladian fragment known as New Quad.
However, some intelligent old aborigines of Western Victoria derided the custom as "white fellow's gammon.
But the thrush, who was of a sceptical turn of mind, derided the idea.
He looked up and saw everything; saw himself mocked by the soldier and the crier, insulted by the Muslimeen, derided by the Jews, spat upon and smitten by the people whose hungry mouths he had fed with bread.
Neither did he delight in the sufferings of them that had derided him.
They wagged their heads at Israel; they derided him; they made merry over his sorry plight.
Most of the pagan leaders mocked and derided it, were agitated, and clamoured: “How did Ḥamzih die?
This explanation would no doubt be derided as, I presume, wiseacres would have derided the first photographers when they insisted upon the necessity of darkness whilst developing their plates.
The principle which Johnson derided in his Life of Pope he had upheld in No.
Hogarth was derided as "The Butyfier," in mockery of his "Analysis of Beauty.
Foote derided him as not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
When had a young man been more derided (or more justly so) than the god of my admiration, Balzac?
Yet has this heroism of our enslaved seamen been overlooked; and even derided by the federal merchant and the federal politician, and the federal member of congress, and the federal clergyman!
In an age of experimental philosophy, which derided a priori methods, this was Hume's great contribution to knowledge.
Hume derided the observation and study of what he called 'Miracles,' in the field of experience, and he looked for an a priori argument which would for ever settle the question without examination of facts.
The more it is injured by itself, derided of men, abandoned of God, the more will love still see that it has need of love, and to the faithless will be faithful.
All that is heroic, all that is sublime, impersonal, or glorious, is deridedas unreal.
For this glorious thing was love, and in her ignorance she had jeered at it; could a life-long repentance and years vowed to the joys she had once derided ever atone for her neglect?
Sarnidac was a dwarf and greatly deridedin the city.
Happily, however, for the foresight of Mr O'Brien, it was his much-derided bonus scheme which became the very pivot of the Land Conference Report.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derided" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
