Sentence examples for deride someone from inspiring English sources

Later I heard a sunburned man deride someone (not present to defend himself) for claiming to be related to aristocracy.

We should praise rather than deride someone who evidences the skill to lay out a bold goal, figure how to sway people to his side, make progress without compromising a larger objective and avoid making the perfect the enemy of the good.

It shouldn't have, since it's not the first time Trump has appeared to stoop to deriding someone's physical disabilities.

In an age of cynicism about politics, Matthews can be romantic about the craft, defensive about its practitioners and personally affronted when someone derides Washington or "the game".

And the tragic death of Paula Yates, in September 2000, gave us pause to recognise that someone derided as an icon of all that was vacuous and silly about modern celebrity was masking a substantial intellect.

Despite this denial, it's entirely possible the state ordered Nemtsov's appalling murder; equally possible that shadowy nationalist forces decided to kill someone routinely derided as an American spy.

For every person who loves her and cries along with her tunes, there is someone who derides her because she wore a tuxedo back to front, or because they just hate her taste in songs.

After several more months of freakout by the Republican establishment, it is possible that the Never-Trumpniks will stay at home rather than vote for someone they openly deride as a hate-mongering conman.

The Olympian posted a relaxed Instagram of herself on a beach Saturday and apparently someone decided to deride her.

He usually asks his audiences if they have recently heard someone or something derided as "gay".

Today, only 164 grammars remain in England, and comprehensives can be sneeringly derided as "bog standard" by someone recently at Tony Blair's elbow.