How to Use derision in a Sentence

derision

noun

• The team's awful record has made it an object of derision in the league.
• One of the students laughed in derision at my error.
• Not all the derision was from the online peanut gallery.
  — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 June 2026
• The changes to the Avengers lineup were met with some derision.
  — Shannon Liao, CNN, 11 June 2019
• Westbrook’s jumper is now the central source of derision among fans.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• That word was slung around playgrounds and hallways with derision.
  — Julie Depenbrock, NPR, 22 June 2024
• Even to ask the question a couple of years ago would have been to invite derision.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 5 July 2019
• The tabloids reported on it with a mix of smug derision and hollow lament.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• Wolff portrays her as the butt of constant jokes and derision from Fox men.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023
• The news was treated with its fair share of derision in certain corners.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2019
• Some corporate moves to mark the royal death have been met with both derision and ridicule.
  — WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• But the ’do that provided decades of delight and derision is no more.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The music is a bright spot in a game that’s been engulfed in drama and derision since the start.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 23 Apr. 2025
• So far, the project has been met with both amusement and derision from members of the public.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• The post was greeted with a volley of derision and dismissal.
  — Josh Morgenthau, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• Zadora, scowling with derision, echoed a common theme heard in the streets.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
• This startling advice has been greeted in many quarters with a mix of shock and derision.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
• Over the years, their ambitions have drawn derision, laughter — and jail.
  — cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
• The constant tone of derision in all their conversations would split them apart faster than a maul splits a log.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 27 May 2021
• Trump’s base has stayed with him in the face of impeachment and widespread media derision.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• From the Sanders wing, the familiar tides of scorn and derision are flowing apace.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 1 June 2017
• He was woke before the term was coined, earning derision for views that hadn’t passed into the mainstream.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• The losses mounted, piled up, heaped upon the players, buried them in derision and loud scorn.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
• They were met with derision and sent home, ostracized from the Olympic movement for decades.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2021
• Regardless of this turn of events, Castle does not turn to derision.
  — Brooke Nagler, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2022
• Yet those soldiers’ returns were often met with derision.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
• Laughter is the best medicine—for the ones who are doing the laughing—but how about for those who are the objects of derision?
  — Pratiksha Thangam Menon, JSTOR Daily, 18 Aug. 2023
• Other derision of Lilith Fair artists was more blatant.
  — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
• No telling yet if this artwork goes along with that song, which seemed to run on the theme of being the object of derision for many around the world.
  — David Rishty, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2018
• Maybe overwrought prose or sentences loaded with adverbs will one day draw a little less derision.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026