The phrase "a derision" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct expression is "derision" without the article "a," as derision is an uncountable noun.
Example: "His comments were met with derision from the audience."
Alternatives: "mockery" or "contempt."
On some level I kind of take exception to that because it's all a derision of television.
Wasikowska is fantastic as Robyn, her unmerciful eyes and contained silence emanating a determination, a commitment to her independence, and a derision for the life she's left behind.
He accused her of attacking the Jews of Palestine "for maintaining an otherworldly separation from the rest of mankind, but," he contended, "when these same Jews make efforts to fend for themselves, in a world whose evil you yourself never cease to emphasize, you react with a derision that itself stems from some otherworldly source".
Whether that image of Bloomberg's tenure will endure remains to be seen, but by the time the Mayor left office yesterday he had become a stand-in for the politics of a new Gilded Age and a target for the public discontent that made the term "one per cent" a derision of choice.
The replays of Roger Clemens hurling a bat past Mike Piazza in Game 2 of the Subway Series exacerbated the anger and frustration of the Mets yesterday, as some of them spoke of the Yankees' pitcher with a derision barely contained.
All of which sounds obvious and unobjectionable, especially in a country where "socialist" is a term of derision, not a mainstream political party.
Father Fogarty felt a certain derision for old Considine, former headmaster of the Crislough school, who served as acolyte at the early morning mass.
Activision responded with a snort of derision and a preemptive court filing earlier this month, asking a judge to declare its game non-infringing.
In Ghana HIPC, as it was popularly known, became a term of derision and a symbol of battered pride.
As with the police, the accusation has been met with a mixture of derision and a throwing up of hands.
