derision — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. Act of treating with disdain.

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   Beispiele

   There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.

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   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.

2. Something to be derided; a laughing stock.

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   Beispiele

   Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]

Substantiv

1. contemptuous laughter

   Oberbegriffe

   disrespectdiscourtesy

2. the act of deriding or treating with contempt

   Synonyme

   ridicule

   Oberbegriffe

   discourtesyoffenseoffenceoffensive activity