(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.
Scoff
Definition:
(n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
(n.) An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
(n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
(v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(2) Mere hypothecation, scoff politicians, rejecting the idea again in parliament yesterday.
(3) And does Ofsted really expect to get away with using the “kids today!” scoff as an actual, presentable-to-parliament reason for these embarrassingly high youth unemployment rates?
(4) Russia continues to scoff at evidence that Syrian government forces carried out the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhun earlier this week.
(5) Brooks worries that part of the problem with society is that we have become conditioned to scoff the marshmallow.
(6) Penny Wong scoffs at 'entertaining but erratic' Barnaby Joyce leading National party Read more The governor of the Reserve Bank Glenn Stevens said at the time there were “few things less likely than Australia defaulting on its sovereign debt”.
(7) Rolf scoffs at those who say the Fight for 15, which the SEIU has underwritten, has failed at its goals of unionizing McDonald’s and getting it to adopt a $15 minimum.
(8) Clegg will insist that the Lib Dems have already replaced Labour as the country's leading "progressive" party and scoff at Tory pretensions to the same label.
(9) Heavily bandaged and unable to walk, she scoffs at the US ambassador's talk of a thorough investigation of the Ahuas raid.
(10) Rodgers scoffs at papers from US military colleges branding them a strategic threat and a Honduran government claim linking maras to al-Qaida.
(11) Although, of course, the easiest thing would simply to be British about all this and scoff.
(12) The Castrol Index, for the mercifully uninitiated, is of course the nonsense ranking scheme cooked up by some bods at Fifa's Castle Greyskull to give people even more of a reason to scoff at them, which is always grand.
(13) "You can't scoff at sewing and it's practicality," asserts Dave Montez.
(14) Sceptics may scoff, and results of an attempt to extract DNA and match it to descendants are not due until Christmas, but Thompson is adamant that the bones now resting in a safe in the archaeology and ancient history department of Leicester University are those of the last Plantagenet, Richard III , who rode out of Leicester on the morning of 22 August 1485 a king, and came back a naked corpse slung over the pommel of a horse.
(15) Presented with official estimates of how many immigrants are in the country illegally, a common response is to scoff.
(16) Morrissey scoffs at Vanessa Redgrave's celebrity humanitarianism in his autobiography.
(17) I used to scoff at the simplicity of equating onscreen violence with its real-world equivalent.
(18) Liberals may scoff, pundits may shake their heads, but Palin herself clearly still wants some form of political life.
(19) His opposite number scoffs at the forecasts and promises his tweaks would be far superior.
(20) Some might call such a day 'The Millennium', but America shies away from the socialist solution, while the rest of the world scoffs but votes with its wallets to adopt our culture.