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Synonyms:
- deprecate, disapprove, gibe, laugh, scoff, vilify, blame, renounce, burlesque, shoot down, censure, mock, joke, defile, jest, rebuke, condemn, insult, skewer, razz, ride, bemock, find fault with, put down, respect, defame, denounce, mimic, admonish, twit, upbraid, reprimand, remonstrate, taunt, quiz, castigate, humiliate, chastise, laughter, chasten, denigrate, caricature, discredit, reproach, scorn, kid, poke fun at, sneer, chide, ridicule, disparage, quip, criticize, scout, jeer, roast, study at ridicule, rag
Examples:
- - The Englishman will deride the slowness of the Dutchman, the Dutchman may distrust the adroitness or fear the activity of the Englishman, but neither dislikes nor avoids the other. - "Impressions of South Africa", James Bryce
- - Everything said and done by the friends of the societies for protecting children and animals may not be wise; but there could be nothing more exquisitely ridiculous than to deride the societies and their labors for that reason. - "From the Easy Chair, series 3", George William Curtis
- - He half raised himself, and fixed his sunken eyes upon the dead body, as these words dropped from his lips: 'It was the last time that I beheld her alive, when she approached me- lonely, and feeble, and poor- in the street, beseeching me to return to her in the days of her old age and her solitude, and to remember how she had loved me in my childhood for my very deformity, how she had watched me throughout the highways of Rome, that none should oppress or deride me! - "Antonina", Wilkie Collins
