Crossword-Solution: DERISION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Derision | n. | The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. |
| Derision | n. | An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DERISION | anagram | IRONSIDE, RESINOID |
We have 36 clues for the answer “DERISION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| derisiveness | 1 answer |
| What tomatoes are thrown in? | 1 answer |
| BARBED shaft | 1 answer |
| APPROVAL (ant.) | 6 answers |
| risibility | 7 answers |
| Jeering | 7 answers |
| Persiflage | 7 answers |
| Tee-hee | 11 answers |
| Iron-y? | 18 answers |
| Scoffing | 19 answers |
| name calling | 19 answers |
| Badinage | 26 answers |
| Giggle | 26 answers |
| detraction | 27 answers |
| Laughing stock? | 30 answers |
| Laughingstock | 34 answers |
| Jeer | 34 answers |
| Contumely | 35 answers |
| gurgle | 40 answers |
| Mockery | 45 answers |
| Barb | 46 answers |
| Satire | 47 answers |
| Disrespect | 48 answers |
| Aspersion | 48 answers |
| Scorn | 50 answers |
| Sarcasm | 50 answers |
| Butt | 54 answers |
| Raillery | 55 answers |
| Burlesque | 55 answers |
| Disdain | 55 answers |
| Crow | 61 answers |
| Jest | 64 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
| Laughter | 68 answers |
| Joke | 71 answers |
| Ridicule | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DERISION (5)
But when Hiawatha saw him Slowly rising through the water, Lifting up his disk refulgent, Loud he shouted in derision, “Esa! esa! shame upon you! You are Ugudwash, the sun-fish, You are not the fish I wanted, You are not the King of Fishes!” Slowly downward, wavering, gleaming, Sank the Ugudwash, the sun-fish, And again the sturgeon, Nahma, Heard the shout of Hiawatha, Heard his challenge of defiance, The unnecessary tumult, Ringing far across the water.
The least spark would kindle the farmer’s swift feelings of rage and jealousy; he would lose his self-mastery as he had this evening; Troy’s blitheness might become aggressive; it might take the direction of derision, and Boldwood’s anger might then take the direction of revenge.
Though this adjective is sometimes applied to {flamage}, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand.
Takis ran to the nearest Police station and told his story, but was greeted practically with derision.
Anybody that’ll take a dare will steal sheep.” The new boy stepped over promptly, and said: “Now you said you’d do it, now let’s see you do it.” “Don’t you crowd me now; you better look out.” “Well, you _said_ you’d do it—why don’t you do it?” “By jingo! for two cents I _will_ do it.” The new boy took two broad coppers out of his pocket and held them out with derision.
Quotes with DERISION (3)
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.
if you are going to try, go all the way.. Otherwise, don’t even start.. If you are going to try, go all the way.. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. Go all the way.. It could mean not eating for three or four days.. It could mean freezing on a park bench.. It could mean jail, derision, mockery, isolation.. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test for endurance, of how much you really want to do it.. And you’ll do it, despite…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1980–2021).