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From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").
derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)
- 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[1]:
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.
- Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
act of treating with contempt
- Armenian: ծաղր (hy) (caġr)
- Bulgarian: присмиване (bg) n (prismivane), осмиване (bg) n (osmivane)
- Czech: posměch m, výsměch (cs) m, zesměšnění n
- Finnish: iva (fi), pilkka (fi)
- French: dérision (fr)
- German: Hohn (de) m, Spott (de) m, Verhöhnung (de) f, Verspottung (de) f, Gespött (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: κατάγελως m (katágelōs)
- Hungarian: kinevetés (hu), kigúnyolás (hu), kicsúfolás (hu), kikacagás, megmosolygás
- Italian: derisione (it) f
- Latin: dērīsiō f
- Macedonian: мунѕа f (mundza)
- Malayalam: പരിഹാസം (ml) (parihāsaṁ)
- Plautdietsch: Spott m
- Polish: wyszydzenie n, szyderstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: menosprezo (pt) m
- Russian: высмеивание (ru) n (vysmeivanije), насме́шка (ru) f (nasméška), осмеяние (ru) n (osmejanije)
- Sanskrit: निद् (sa) f (nid)
- Spanish: irrisión (es) f
- Swedish: hån (sv), förlöjligande (sv)
- Telugu: ఎగతాళి (te) (egatāḷi)
- Turkish: alay (tr)
- Ukrainian: висміювання n (vysmijuvannja), насміхання n (nasmixannja), посміх m (posmix), глузування n (hluzuvannja)
- “derision”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “derision”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.