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Deriding meaning

present participle and gerund of deride

Using Deriding

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of deride
  • In the example corpus, deriding often appears in combinations such as: deriding the, deriding his, deriding them.

Context around Deriding

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Deriding

  • In this selection, "deriding" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, return, customers, bonspille, biden, brussels and hindus stand out and add context to how "deriding" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include am not deriding your effort and ban for deriding the country. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "deriding" sits close to words such as aaj, abn and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with deriding

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Can you share examples of this "deriding"? (7 words)

Deriding the homeless and downtrodden is one of our national pastimes. (11 words)

Those deriding his credentials should just hush and focus on their on frailties. (13 words)

Her pro-British allies in Belfast, on whom she relies for a slim majority to see through her Brexit legislation, pulled no punches in deriding Brussels’ proposals for a “common regulatory area” comprising the EU and Northern Ireland. (38 words)

Mr Trump, meanwhile, has spent the same period camped out at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, plotting his political return, deriding his enemies online and wrangling lawyers as the state and federal investigations into his past continue. (37 words)

Higbie then played a clip of Vice President deriding the laptop story to a local ABC News affiliate, calling it “garbage” and a smear, and that “there’s no basis at all” for the story. (35 words)

Can you share examples of this "deriding"? (7 words)

Example sentences (20)

Mr Trump, meanwhile, has spent the same period camped out at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, plotting his political return, deriding his enemies online and wrangling lawyers as the state and federal investigations into his past continue.

The company turned on its customers, deriding them as frat boys, and the frat boys and similar people rejected the insult.

Those deriding his credentials should just hush and focus on their on frailties.

In 2011, Botswana slapped him with a visa ban for deriding the country’s administration – then under President Khama – of being a “puppet regime” and threatened to oust Khama.

The announcement sparked a hostile response from MCK grand chief Victor Bonspille, who published a communique on the personal Facebook account of MCK chief Valerie Bonspille deriding the majority of Council for their efforts.

Brehm describes how Colbert walks a tightrope of poking fun without deriding the church he loves.

Can you share examples of this "deriding"?

Divine duly attempted to maintain his favoured status at the War Office by writing to distance himself from the script, in particular deriding the two civilians and the central character, Corporal Binns.

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Higbie then played a clip of Vice President deriding the laptop story to a local ABC News affiliate, calling it “garbage” and a smear, and that “there’s no basis at all” for the story.

Mr Trump has spent the final days of the campaign predicting victory and deriding Biden for backing restrictions that aim to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Articles will appear acclaiming the success of U.S. schools or deriding their failures.

But he also made a point of deriding the state's handling of its homeless crisis, and on Wednesday he issued a long-expected challenge to California's authority to reduce car emissions.

Deriding the homeless and downtrodden is one of our national pastimes.

Her pro-British allies in Belfast, on whom she relies for a slim majority to see through her Brexit legislation, pulled no punches in deriding Brussels’ proposals for a “common regulatory area” comprising the EU and Northern Ireland.

I am not deriding your effort – that is the world of the entrepreneur, SME and corporate worker.

There are a few scenes of protesters deriding the space program, but “First Man” hardly takes their side.

This spineless character should stick to being an english tution teacher but perhaps he may not earn as much as he does by deriding hindus.

Following the satirical form, he introduces the reforms he is actually suggesting by deriding them: Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients.

Indeed, 1840 (referred to as the Liederjahr or year of song) is highly significant in Schumann's musical legacy despite his earlier deriding of works for piano and voice as inferior.

It includes a caption — not by a Christian, but by someone taunting and deriding Christians and the crucifixions they underwent.

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Common combinations with deriding

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "deriding" in a sentence?
An example: "Mr Trump, meanwhile, has spent the same period camped out at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, plotting his political return, deriding his enemies online and wrangling lawyers as the state and federal investigations into his past continue." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "deriding" from authentic English texts.
What does "deriding" mean?
Deriding means: present participle and gerund of deride
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