deride someone/something as something
collocation
formal
to laugh at or show no respect for someone or something because you consider them to be something bad:
The weak local leaders were derided as puppets.
Most astronomers rightly derided his theories as unscientific.
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deride
Video games were for a long time derided as the pastime of computer geeks and children.
She derides the royal family as part of a disreputable and inequitable hierarchy.
People across the political spectrum derided the rule change as damaging and insulting.
His approach has been widely derided as ineffective.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Mocking and taunting
caricature
deride
derision
derisive
derisively
lampoon
make a mockery of somethingidiom
make a monkey out of someoneidiom
mimic
mimicry
mock
mockery
mocking
piss
sardonically
scoff
scoffer
self-caricature
self-mockery
tauntingly
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