Derision is the food of fools.
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Derision
Synonyms for "derision" (70 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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5 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
44 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κατάγελως noun (act of treating with contempt)
Armenian
1 entries- ծաղր noun (act of treating with contempt)
Bulgarian
2 entries- осмиване noun (act of treating with contempt)
- присмиване noun (act of treating with contempt)
Catalan
1 entries- derisió noun (act of treating with contempt)
Czech
3 entries- posměch noun (act of treating with contempt)
- výsměch noun (act of treating with contempt)
- zesměšnění noun (act of treating with contempt)
Finnish
2 entries- iva noun (act of treating with contempt)
- pilkka noun (act of treating with contempt)
French
1 entries- dérision noun (act of treating with contempt)
Galician
2 entries- desdén noun (act of treating with contempt)
- menosprezo noun (act of treating with contempt)
German
4 entries- Gespött noun (act of treating with contempt)
- Hohn noun (act of treating with contempt)
- Spott noun (act of treating with contempt)
- Verhöhnung noun (act of treating with contempt)
Hungarian
4 entries- kicsúfolás noun (act of treating with contempt)
- kigúnyolás noun (act of treating with contempt)
- kikacagás noun (act of treating with contempt)
- kinevetés noun (act of treating with contempt)
Italian
1 entries- derisione noun (act of treating with contempt)
Latin
1 entries- dērīsiō noun (act of treating with contempt)
Macedonian
1 entries- мунѕа noun (act of treating with contempt)
Malayalam
1 entries- പരിഹാസം noun (act of treating with contempt)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Spott noun (act of treating with contempt)
Polish
2 entries- szyderstwo noun (act of treating with contempt)
- wyszydzenie noun (act of treating with contempt)
Portuguese
1 entries- menosprezo noun (act of treating with contempt)
Russian
3 entries- высмеивание noun (act of treating with contempt)
- насме́шка noun (act of treating with contempt)
- осмеяние noun (act of treating with contempt)
Sanskrit
1 entries- निद् noun (act of treating with contempt)
Spanish
1 entries- irrisión noun (act of treating with contempt)
Swedish
2 entries- förlöjligande noun (act of treating with contempt)
- hån noun (act of treating with contempt)
Telugu
1 entries- ఎగతాళి noun (act of treating with contempt)
Turkish
1 entries- alay noun (act of treating with contempt)
Ukrainian
4 entries- висміювання noun (act of treating with contempt)
- глузування noun (act of treating with contempt)
- насміхання noun (act of treating with contempt)
- посміх noun (act of treating with contempt)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
There are quite a few ways to express derision in Esperanto.
Source: tatoeba (9995628)
All Mary has left for Tom is scorn and derision.
Source: tatoeba (11147153)
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.
Source: tatoeba (12174002)
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