Crossword-Solution: DERIDED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Derided | imp. & p. p. | of Deride |
We have 20 clues for the answer “DERIDED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mocked openly | 1 answer |
| Spoke of scornfully | 1 answer |
| Snickered at | 1 answer |
| Did pan-roasting? | 1 answer |
| Laughed to scorn. | 1 answer |
| Laughed at. | 2 answers |
| Treated with scorn | 2 answers |
| Gibed. | 3 answers |
| Expressed contempt for | 3 answers |
| Jeered at | 4 answers |
| Showed contempt for | 5 answers |
| Knocked | 6 answers |
| Pooh-poohed | 6 answers |
| Scoffed at | 7 answers |
| Ridiculed | 8 answers |
| Scoffed | 8 answers |
| Mocked | 13 answers |
| Made fun of | 18 answers |
| Scorned. | 55 answers |
| Put down | 80 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAZCEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DERIDED (5)
The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?” The Fox and the Mask A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.
And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided your superiors— behold!” He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp.
Old derided tales of the Mountain people came back to her, and the woman's stare was so disconcerting, and the face of the sleeping man so sodden and bestial, that her disgust was tinged with a vague dread.
Tolstoy the realist steps without cavil into the front rank of modern writers; Tolstoy the idealist has been constantly derided and scorned by men of like birth and education with himself--his altruism denounced as impracticable, his preaching compared with his mode of life to prove him inconsistent, if not insincere.
What should she say to Owen if she found him? What could she say that should not betray the one thing she would give her life to hide from him? “Give her life”--how the phrase derided her! It was a gift she would not have bestowed on her worst enemy.
Quotes with DERIDED (3)
Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don’t recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel’s book One Generation After. The quote was entitled “Why I Protest.” Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets pro…
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1948–2022).