Deride in a sentence

Korean officials fit their laws to match American ones to make children adoptable for what some deride as “baby diplomacy” to satisfy Western demand.

OK, you get up there, they're going to rap each other off and they're supposed to deride and blast each other.

Government is not instituted to deride the people but to protect their fundamental rights.

It’s distinct from what Trump and his allies deride as “anchor babies,” referring to poor women who enter the U.S. illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border to give birth to a child and then stay in the U.S. illegally.

The point in all this wasn’t to deride or demonize Dr. Fauci.

We hail or deride Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist, usually on the basis of what we believe about climate change and its causes.

A decade ago, the actor expressed his distaste for films that critics often deride as mindless (read as: masala film).

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted on Sunday to deride Mr Pompeo, saying that “having failed at max pressure, Sec Pompeo’s turning to max deceit”.

Republicans deride the process as a politically motivated farce.

The president – whom protesters deride as a “narco-dictator – was re-elected to a second term in 2017 in polls which his opponents said were fraudulent.

Whether you appreciate your local newspaper or deride it for mediocre coverage, poor writing or boring editorials — or all of the above — imagine the vacuum if that newspaper disappeared.

Although also meant to deride Mnangagwa, It backfired with people saying if he was that rich, he was the best man to turn the country around.

But is our understanding of the problem in any way advanced when a rabbi uses that pulpit to publicly deride one of his or her own?

Fan boys may deride the lack of spectacle and its nuanced take on a well-loved protagonist may not be for everyone, but it's rare to see a reimagining to a series handled as deftly and with such polish and care.

However, that does not mean that we can deride the very real stresses of working during college, keeping up grades for scholarships and taking advantage of our time here so we can be better-qualified for graduate schools and higher paying jobs.

In order to protect our false sense of morality, piety and sanctity we repeatedly deride and shame the devadasi.

I tend to deride those who don’t appreciate WWE’s fawning language of “history being made” every time a Women’s Championship contract signing closes the show.

Precisely in order not to draw back from the ‘prodigious scope of their own aims’, as Marx once put it, they must ‘engage in perpetual self-criticism’ and deride ‘the inadequacies, weak points and pitiful aspects of their first attempts’.

So goes the strange conflict at the heart of the Zinedine Zidane story, the man whom some deride as simply the right man in the right place with the right players – an entrenador de palmas, good at clapping, less good at tactics.

They still deride him for flaunting his friendships with late leftist leaders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.