deride

From Middle French dérider, from Latin dērīdeō (“to mock, laugh at”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + rīdeō (“to laugh”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

deride (third-person singular simple present derides, present participle deriding, simple past and past participle derided)

1. (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.
   • 2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Italy's eventual win was worthy of an audience filling Wembley twice over, the joy of Mancini and his players a brutal contrast to the despair of much-derided Spain striker Alvaro Morata, who had actually rescued them with an equaliser in normal time after Federico Chiesa's superb opener for Italy.

• See also Thesaurus:ridicule

• derider
• deridingly

• derision
• derisive
• ridicule
• ridiculous
• ridiculosity
• risible

• “deride”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “deride”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Diedre, redied

• IPA^(key): /deˈri.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: de‧rì‧de

deride

1. third-person singular present indicative of deridere

• diedre

dērīdē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dērīdeō

deride

1. locative singular of deri