🔄 Synonyms of "Derision"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ridiculenoun | (transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of. |
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| Word | Definition |
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| ridiculenoun | Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior. |
| disdainnoun | (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn. |
| contemptnoun | (uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain. |
| scornnoun | (uncountable) Contempt or disdain. |
| insultnoun | (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect. |
| subsannationnoun | (obsolete, rare) derision; mockery |
| mockerynoun | The action of mocking; ridicule, derision. |
| defiancenoun | Open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power; refusing to give up. |
| sarcasmnoun | (uncountable) Use of acerbic language to mock or convey contempt, often using verbal irony and (in speech) often marked by overemphasis and sneering. |
| travestynoun | An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation. |
| disregardnoun | The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something. |
| satirenoun | (uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Imitation, humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this. |
| ironynoun | (rhetoric) The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. |
| gaggingnoun | A gag motion or reflex. |
| scorningverb | The act of one who scorns. |
| ridiculingverb | The act of exposing to ridicule. |
| derogationnoun | An act which belittles; disparagement. |
| disparagementnoun | The act of disparaging, of belittling. |
| denigrationnoun | An unfair criticism. |
| disparaging | Insulting, ridiculing. |
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