Derision

Derision is the food of fools.

There are quite a few ways to express derision in Esperanto.

All Mary has left for Tom is scorn and derision.

Transported to another place and culture, this rough-hewn American becomes an object of curiosity; but his horse draws even more attention... and derision... from the fiercely proud owners and riders of the purebred Arabian horses.

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

One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.

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