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Pejoratives are distinct from profanity, which refers to language that is considered rude; Pejoratives refer more to disapproval and not necessarily rudeness. Sometimes a term may begin as a pejorativ...
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Derision - Definition of Derision at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Derision. Word of the Day and Crossword Puzzles. ... ridicule; mockery: The inept performance elicited derision from the audience.
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Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing. The critic's review of the film was derisive. ... Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule. ... (expressing or characterized by derision): mocking, ridiculing...
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Exodus 32:25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies), (WEB JPS ASV NAS) ... Job 12:4 I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man. (DBY)
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ... Jeremiah is fond of it. It is used both as a substantive and a verb, the latter in the phrase "to have in derision:"
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John C. Butcher ... LEWIS CARROLL IN NUMBERLAND: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life. Robin Wilson. xii + 237 pp. W. ... Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an Oxford don, a talented mathematician, a deacon in the Church of England and a pioneer in portrait and studio photography.
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Ben Smith's Politico.com blog on the 2008 presidential race, with a focus on the Democratic candidates. ... ; February 24, 2008; Read More: Hillary Clinton ... UPDATE: Clinton, in her CBN interview offers the nontheatrical (and also clearly authentic) version of that derision:
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Meanings of derision, virile, lexicographer, misdemeanor, annihilate, harping, qualified, crimson, propriety, weft ... discuss the word derision ... Meaning of derision (noun) form: derisions the act of deriding or treating with contempt; What does derision mean? derision meaning; WordNet Vocabulary Helper · Encarta...
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The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. ... An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
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[dĭ-rĭzh́ən]
