Sentence examples for figure of derision for from inspiring English sources

He was a figure of derision for some.

Other times he is dismissed as hopeless – held to ransom by the SNP or a figure of derision for opposing British exit from the EU.

He went on to give his favourite figure of derision, the Queen, another verbal flogging for wearing "electrocuted animals".

Since then, however, Rumsfeld has become an almost universal figure of derision and contempt.

In "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", Molière's Monsieur Jourdain was excited to discover that he had been speaking prose all his life but he is, characteristically, a figure of derision.

At school, Clark admits people may have found her "a little odd", but that she was not "a figure of derision.

Benitez's time at Liverpool made him a figure of derision and dislike at Chelsea.

"Smith was a simple man," Graham Boynton wrote soon after his death, "and it was his rather humourless, one-dimensional Rhodesian-ness that at once made him a hero among his own people and a figure of derision among his enemies".

Social media is also full of derision for Georgian politicians.

She laughed, with a soupçon of derision for the naïve and uninitiated.

The Vice President posed, smiling, with Mr. Ortega, who only weeks before had been an object of derision for the White House.