deride
[verb]
Synonyms: mock, disdain, disparage, insult, jeer, ridicule, scoff, scorn, sneer, taunt

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Related Words: banter, chaff, jolly, kid, rag, rib

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English Thesaurus: mock, make fun of somebody/something, laugh at somebody/something, poke fun at somebody/something, ridicule, ...

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de‧ride /dɪˈraɪd/ verb [transitive] formal
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: deridere, from ridere 'to laugh']
to make remarks or jokes that show you think someone or something is silly or useless Synonym : mock ⇒ derisive:
You shouldn’t deride their efforts.
deride somebody as something
The party was derided as totally lacking in ideas.

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mock formal to laugh at and say unkind things about a person, institution, belief etc, to show that you do not have a high opinion of them. Mock is a formal word - in everyday English people usually say make fun of:
The press mocked his attempts to appeal to young voters.
She was mocked by other pupils in her class.
You shouldn’t mock the afflicted! (=you should not make fun of people who cannot help having problems - used especially ironically, when really you think it is funny too)
make fun of somebody/something to make someone or something seem stupid by making unkind jokes about them:
Peter didn’t seem to realize that they were making fun of him.
It used to be fashionable to make fun of the European Parliament.
laugh at somebody/something to make unkind or funny remarks about someone or something, because they seem stupid or strange:
I don’t want the other kids to laugh at me.
People would laugh at the idea nowadays.
poke fun at somebody/something to make someone or something seem silly by making jokes about them, especially in a way that is funny but not really cruel:
a TV series that regularly poked fun at the government
He’s in no position to poke fun at other people’s use of English!
ridicule formal to make unkind remarks that make someone or something seem stupid:
Catesby ridiculed his suggestion.
His ideas were widely ridiculed at the time.
Scientists ridiculed him for doubting the existence of the greenhouse effect.
deride formal to make remarks that show you think that something is stupid or useless - often used when you think that the people who do this are wrong:
Some forms of alternative medicine – much derided by doctors – have been shown to help patients.
the system that Marxists previously derided as ‘bourgeois democracy’

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