Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of deride
nounderiding (plural deridings)
plural deridings
- An act of derision.
The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]
1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale, page 205
adjectivederiding (comparative more deriding, superlative most deriding)
comparative more deriding · superlative most deriding
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with deriding
providingridingdecidinghidingslidingguidingdividingsidingpresidingglidingoverridingabidingparaglidingcollidingcoincidingstridingbidingsubsidingbackslidingconfidingchidingjoyridingblindsidingnondividing
All rhymes →Cite this entry
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deriding,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deriding.
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