1. Americans speak with derision of those who are lazy.

2. Her speech was greeted with howls of derision.

3. He gave a snort of derision.

4. She withered him with derision.

5. Her naive attitude provoked their derision.

6. They treated his suggestion with derision.

7. His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.

8. He became an object of universal derision.

9. He gave a hoot of laughter/derision.

10. Her speech was met with hoots/howls of derision.

11. The Church viewed it with derision rather than suspicion.

12. The speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.

13. Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth's six-page statement, the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism.

14. Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.

15. However, the move has been greeted with derision by many academics.

16. She couldn't cope with that, couldn't face seeing derision in those dark midnight eyes.

17. Such detailed planning would have provoked snorts of derision from Sir Keith.

18. My stories, however, were greeted with disbelief and derision, and I felt increasingly rejected.

19. My chaplain snorts in derision but what does he know?

20. Sharpe translated the crowd's attention as the derision due to a cuckold and, in that misapprehension, his temper snapped.

21. He tried to calm them, but was greeted with shouts of derision.

22. "What a mess they made of it," said Sam with a snort of derision.

23. How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit!

24. The dogma is of absolutes, the lifestyle is of attempted purity and the zealot is subject to continuous derision.

25. If this and other resolutions fell well below popular expectations, their implementation since then has invited even greater derision.

26. Raul looked him up and down[Sentencedict], eyes opened wide with derision.

27. In Kursk guberniia the telephone system was a subject for derision.

28. The answer-it is such an obvious question-is shouted forth on piping wings of derision.

29. If you did, you risked verbal or physical abuse, derision and expulsion.

30. Labour said it would raise taxes and was subject to the most sustained derision, as well as black propaganda.

31. The Jospin administration's job-creating brainchild was greeted with hoots of derision when it was announced in 1997.

32. Great achievements require confidence and always meet with criticism, often with derision.

33. A phoenix-like ascension has been threatened before, over these last long 16 years of derision and scorn.

34. To smirk or laugh in contempt or derision.

35. The third way died in vacuity and derision.

36. Children dread the derision of their playmates.

37. People will point their fingers at him with derision.

38. There was a trace of derision in her smile.

39. Tom withered him with derision!

40. Then a terrific howl of derision silenced him.

41. Then the brushes came in for derision.

42. His naive attitude provokes their derision.

43. His face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision.

44. Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

45. The man's tears can recruit to a derision and slight.

46. In his comparative study of religions, Legge exhibits his inextirpable exclusivism in his belief in Christianity; however, in his evaluation of Confucianism, he took a change from derision to respect.

47. The proposal was held in derision by members of the board.

48. We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those around us.

49. This, coupled with the fact that flying machines remained universally a subject for jeers and derision, made the brothers secretive.

50. This will be their derision In the land of Egypt.

51. An instrument of punishment no longer in use, consisting of a chair in which the offender was tied and exposed to public derision or ducked in water.

52. Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.

53. I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay , and I'll laught in derision!

54. "Lost in Translation" made a derision of the problems about Japanese people, like "short in height but prolix in speech, " cultural myopia, and rampant in the sex industry.

55. Catcall:a harsh or shrill call or whistle expressing derision or disapproval.

56. Azizov smiled[ ], whether out of derision or amusement Levchenko could not tell.

57. Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

58. To express certain emotions, especially mirth, delight, or derision, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.

59. Funny that an innocuous runabout could stir such feelings of derision.

60. They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

61. " They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.