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What does deride mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.
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They speak of freedom and democracy, and our way of life and our values, and they deride those who reason why.
Being a spoof on a spoof might be cleverish, but I suspect that the only audience it will find is the audience that it seeks to deride.
The painter proved once again yesterday that, while critics might deride it, the public can't get enough of his work.
All serious analysts of crime deride this as at best ignorant and at worst dishonest.
Those entrenched enough to deride as fools or quislings anyone who questions war may also be more prone to edit events to fit their version.
The liberals deride him as a turncoat while the right tentatively seeks to claim him.

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