derision

See also: dérision

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈɹɪʒən/
  • Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Noun

derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)

  1. Act of treating with disdain.
    • 1969, Mario Puzo, The Godfather:
      There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.
    • 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
      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.
  2. Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:
      Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision []

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Further reading

  • derision in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • derision in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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