He was a derision to his classmates.
We are objects of reproach to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
He successfully transformed the prison from a place of derision to a center of festive reunion, never flinching to return to captivity.
But this tall (6ft. 5in.), precocious Jamaican sprinter is a ray of hope for a sport whose unrelenting doping scandals have won it the same derision heaped on baseball and cycling.
they cried in derision.
They greeted his suggestion with shouts of derision.
I would have snorted with derision and left the website quickly, but I still would have clicked.
I had a study with a window opposite some window of hers, & one night when I was writing I heard voices full of derision and saw the stout woman and her family standing in the window.
This ostrich policy was brought into derision.
He had to do smaller projects that no one else wanted and endure derision and slights from others.
It may be a function of empathy; we feel badly for the objects of our derision. Or it could be selfishness; we realize people won't like us for nattering on meanly about others.
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves?
But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Significantly, the students' response was not anger, but derision - a clear sign of how the US is now perceived.
Do they deserve universal derision?
However, a few years ago, I posed nude for art students. So my objection to the suggestion of a colleague that I go on a nude vacation was met with derision by my editor.
The "beauty doctor" was a term of derision.
It is still how most banking systems in Asia are run, and when the European Central bank was established - to derision in London - it retained the facility.
We don’t bow to airplane pilots the way we once did (except, perhaps, Sully), and Presidents are more the subjects of derision than idolatry.
