deride
WORD OR GRAMMATICAL FORM EXPRESSING A LOW OPINION OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING
Term of disparagement; Terms of disparagement; Pejoration; Prejorative; Pejoratively; Perjorative; Dyslogism; Lazy Loser; Dyslogisms; Loser (person); Pejorative term; Term of derision; Dyslogistic; Derogative; Pejoratives; Deride; Term of abuse; Terms of abuse; Name slur; Derogatory term; Derogatory; Derogatory language; Denigrating term; Slur (pejorative)
(derides, deriding, derided)
If you deride someone or something, you say that they are stupid or have no value. (FORMAL)
Opposition MPs derided the Government's response to the crisis...
= ridicule
VERB: V n