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He focused on Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, deriding the moderate cleric, again, as a "wolf in sheep's clothing."

Shapiro has another post today deriding Friedman, and not addressing the veracity of the "Friends of Hamas" claim.

And he loves deriding his critics for not understanding it as well as he does.

Today we asked whether Ron Paul deriding Secret Service protection as "welfare" was gimmicky or insightful.

During this press conference, Obama added insult to injury by deriding his base as “sanctimonious” for their principles.

The humorist and satirist lost no opportunity of deriding the new fashion and its followers.

Here am I, who turn up my nose at the popular gods, deriding my own private and particular gods in their very temples!

His life is spent in idleness, merely observing the sayings and doings of the gods, and then censuring and deriding them.

When he wished to sleep he was instructed how to fold up his clothes and set out his boots; the other boys deriding.

Like most grossly superstitious folk, the Kamboh could not keep his tongue from deriding his Church.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deriding, such as: disdain, taunt, ridicule, scoff, scorn, and disparage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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