Word Meanings - DERIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.

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• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• LAUGHSOME
  Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
• CONTEMPT
  Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• SCOFFERY
  The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• SCOFFER
  One who scoffs. 2 Pet. iii. 3.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• MOCKER
  A mocking bird. Mocker nut , a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider. 2. A deceiver; an impostor.
• CONTEMPTIBLE
  1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
• MOCKERY
  1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals
• CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
  Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• CONTEMPTIBILITY
  The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed.
• TITANOTHERIUM
  A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.