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English
Adjective
derided (comparative more derided, superlative most derided)
- Disparaged; subject to criticism or mockery.
1872, Publications of the Narragansett Club: George Fox digg'd out out of his burrowes, page 257:[…] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .
1906, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, The Key of the Blue Closet, page 201:There is nothing more derided than the raptures of a young affection.
2016, Ronald H. Bayor, The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity, page 388:Moreover, the legacy of anti-Asian racism has meant that even relatively modest efforts on foreign policy have been, as Paul Watanabe notes, "more discouraged than encouraged, more derided than applauded."
Derived terms
Verb
derided
- simple past and past participle of deride