How to Use deride in a Sentence

deride

verb

• Trump has derided climate change as a hoax for many years.
  — James Speyer, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
• If the idea was pitched today, it may have been derided as a cash grab.
  — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2026
• While some may deride such programs as soft on crime, the Adams plan is smart on crime.
  — Charles Fain Lehman, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
• It may be derided as one of the worst returns of the modern era.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
• And even though other people on the show might deride him for it, it’s done with so much love.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2022
• Hendren is a combative man of large ego who tends to deride foes.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2021
• They are also often derided as pests and called rats with wings.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Some people derided them for testing on a postage stamp-size place.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2023
• It will be derided, defended, laughed at, and — who knows?
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
• Trump’s speeches, yet most of them could reject it, or even share it in order to deride or ridicule it.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
• Some critics have derided the club as a personal playpen for the rich white guys on the board.
  — Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
• The move was widely derided and heaped piles of scorn on Shkreli.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 May 2018
• The film didn't just receive pans from critics, it was also derided by its cast.
  — Keith Langston and Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 May 2023
• Games with Black leads and characters were derided as forced.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
• Some fans have derided the breaks for turning soccer from a game played in two halves to one played in four quarters.
  — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2026
• Democrats widely deride tariffs, though the party used to support them.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025
• He was derided by fans and became the target of hard slides and cheap shots from opponents.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
• The genre as a whole was long derided as juvenile, the stuff of fantasy.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Posting emails questioning their choice to deride the people writing them is the last thing.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
• When someone returned with a large kill to share, the norm was not to praise his generosity but to deride him.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Last year’s model had a white front, which was derided by some who sought the red and black combination.
  — Mark Gurman, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
• But this isn’t the time to be smug toward those who derided them, Sutton and others said.
  — Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2020
• Errani does not have this pace, and her height has contributed to a shot often derided as the worst serve in the sport.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• Some might deride that as a lack of originality, but at least he’s picked some darn good films from which to borrow.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2020
• Wall-to-wall carpet has long been derided as suburban and dated.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
• At minimum, the show serves as an hour to deride the maps, magic walls and needles that will inevitably rule the night.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• Videos that are fake are believed to be real; videos that are real can easily be derided as fake.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
• Posting emails questioning their choice in order to deride the people writing them is the last thing.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2020
• Politicians and consumer groups deride the idea as just the latest corporate feint to gouge the public.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
• Hogan also derided the field of nine Democrats on the ballot hoping to replace him.
  — Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2018