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Derision

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Act of treating with disdain. countable, uncountable

    "There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed."

  2. 2
    the act of deriding or treating with contempt wordnet
  3. 3
    Something to be derided; a laughing stock. countable, uncountable

    "Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]"

  4. 4
    contemptuous laughter wordnet

Etymology

From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").

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