Associations to the word «Derision»

Wiktionary

DERISION, noun. Act of treating with disdain.

Dictionary definition

DERISION, noun. Contemptuous laughter.
DERISION, noun. The act of deriding or treating with contempt.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope