(v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
Example Sentences:
(1) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
(2) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(3) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
(4) Though parts of his ¥25tn (£160bn) stimulus package were derided – in particular the cash handouts to all residents – those, together with subsidies for fuel-efficient cars and green electrical appliances, have produced at least some short-term benefits.
(5) Kabila, derided by his opponents as being "Rwandan", came to power in 2001 after the assassination of his father, warlord Laurent Kabila, who had seized power in a coup with Rwandan backing.
(6) Yes, many will deride the protesters as spoilsports.
(7) Her family's privacy has been invaded to find the "causes" of her choice and her personal appearance derided, not least within what might otherwise be called the sisterhood.
(8) The piracy charges have been broadly derided as having little basis in Russian law, partly as it is fairly clear to all involved that Greenpeace's intentions were never to steal or seize property from the Prirazlomnaya rig.
(9) An American claim that biofuels contributed less than 3% to food price rises was widely derided.
(10) After so long being derided, is this disco's revenge?
(11) Hinkley Point power station makes no sense on so many levels Read more The agreement was welcomed by many in Britain’s business community and bytrade unions, but was derided by Greenpeace, which was angry that the deal is going ahead when solar and wind power face major subsidy cuts.
(12) Especially because Trump suggested that he never settled cases and derided others who did settle them.” The looming move to the White House ratcheted up pressure, Tobias said.
(13) Even Trump, who has constantly derided “political correctness”, realised he had gone too far.
(14) The liberals are being derided in Tahrir Square as having sold out to the supreme council of the armed forces (Scaf) by agreeing to participate in a flawed "transition" proceeding at a snail's pace; and outgunned by the organisational firepower of the Islamist parties and remnants of Hosni Mubarak's old ruling NDP, both of which look set to sweep the board when voting stations open their doors on Monday.
(15) Nine years after Jonathan Franzen derided Oprah Winfrey's choice of "schmaltzy, one-dimensional" novels for her book club, becoming the first author to be formally disinvited to appear on her show, these two giants of American cultural life appear to have buried the hatchet.
(16) That has some of his fans worried that Stewart is now, like the reporters he derides, too close to the centre of power.
(17) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
(18) It’s just to show solidarity with the Mexican people,” Milne said, “and everyone else that Trump has derided, insulted and intimidated.” Trump has infuriated Mexicans with his comments about immigrants and proposal to build a wall along the United States’ southern border.
(19) In some of the strongest passages, derided as class war by the Conservatives, he claimed Cameron's record had forfeited the right to be regarded as a one nation prime minister.
(20) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
Jibe
Definition:
(v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
(v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.
(v. t.) To agree; to harmonize.
Example Sentences:
(1) He reiterated his jibe that the Republican convention had been like watching something from the past, a black-and-white newsreel.
(2) It seemed to be a jibe at the Serbs’ claims on Kosovo, whose population is overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian, and the photographs depicted on either side were equally inflammatory.
(3) Sal Russo, an influential strategist and founder of the Tea Party Express, said that even the terrorist jibe was a sign of success.
(4) The PBR took "no tough decisions", jibed the Conservatives, but it lopped £7bn off public spending and jacked up national insurance contributions by £3bn – fairly tough in anyone's book.
(5) Livingstone, the former London mayor, whose fractious relationship with the Standard reached a low point with his Nazi jibe at Jewish reporter Oliver Finegold , remains defiantly unapologetic about the incident and holds a healthy hatred of the title, now majority-owned by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev.
(6) Berg's jibe was "there's no longer anything original or particularly provocative about bowel movements presented as art".
(7) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
(8) Take Channel 4 political correspondent, Michael Crick, who tweeted a cruel jibe made about Abbott by a London cabbie just to make a point about Jeremy Corbyn.
(9) I actually don’t drink.” He smiles when repeating Hayden’s jibe.
(10) Ignoring Osborne's jibe that to threaten a debt default was like threatening "to burn my own house down in protest", Salmond warned that if there was no deal on sterling, there would be no deal on Scotland paying its share of the £1.6tn of national debt expected by 2016.
(11) And in response to tabloid-inflated hysteria about an influx of Romanian and Bulgarian welfare-hounds, Johnson cracks a cheap jibe about Transylvanians and tents – an undisguised slur on the Roma.
(12) Now he has a 4-5% chance.” Later in the debate, Trump and Cruz went at each other’s jugulars a second time – on this occasion over Cruz’s recent jibe that Trump subscribed to “New York values”.
(13) Charlene White, a presenter on ITV News London, received insults on social media after she appeared on screen without the poppy, with many of the jibes focusing on her race.
(14) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: was 'bunch of migrants' jibe intentional?
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump makes menstruation jibe at Megyn Kelly - audio Cruz said that Trump’s feud with Kelly was a sign of weakness: “If he thinks Megyn Kelly is so scary, what exactly would he do with Vladimir Putin?
(16) They’re both enjoying the challenge.” There have been inevitable jibes about Mauresmo being a woman working in men’s tennis.
(17) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: Google tax row sparks 'bunch of migrants' jibe Read more “They met with the unions and gave them flying pickets.
(18) Speaking at the launch of the new TechHub incubator in Old Street, the London mayor referred to Merkel’s jibe on Monday at the expense of Britain’s poor rural broadband.
(19) She is by far the most popular …" Ms Harman was careful not to smile at this gallant jibe, but most of the shadow cabinet thought it very droll and smiled happily.
(20) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.