derision — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. Act of treating with disdain.

   Uso

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   Esempi

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

   Altri esempi (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.

2. Something to be derided; a laughing stock.

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   Esempi

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

Sostantivo

1. contemptuous laughter

   Termini più generali

   disrespectdiscourtesy

2. the act of deriding or treating with contempt

   Sinonimi

   ridicule

   Termini più generali

   discourtesyoffenseoffenceoffensive activity