derision

See also: dérision

English

From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").

derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)

Act of treating with disdain.
- 1969, Mario Puzo, The Godfather:
  There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.
- 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian‎:
  One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.
Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 14, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
  Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]

act of treating with contempt

Armenian: ծաղր (hy) (całr)
Bulgarian: присмиване (bg) n (prismivane), осмиване (bg) n (osmivane)
Czech: posměch m, výsměch (cs) m, zesměšnění n
Finnish: iva (fi), pilkka (fi)
French: dérision (fr)
German: Hohn (de) m, Spott (de) m, Verhöhnung (de) f, Verspottung (de) f, Gespött (de) n
Greek:
Ancient: κατάγελως m (katágelōs)
Hungarian: kinevetés, kigúnyolás (hu), kicsúfolás, kikacagás, megmosolygás
Italian: derisione (it) f
Latin: dērīsiō f
Macedonian: мунѕа f (mundza)
Malayalam: പരിഹാസം (ml) (parihāsaṃ)
Plautdietsch: Spott m
Polish: wyszydzenie n, szyderstwo (pl) n
Portuguese: menosprezo (pt) m
Russian: высмеивание (ru) n (vysmeivanije), насме́шка (ru) f (nasméška), осмеяние (ru) n (osmejanije)
Sanskrit: निद् (sa) f (nid)
Spanish: irrisión (es) f
Swedish: hån (sv), förlöjligande (sv)
Telugu: ఎగతాళి (te) (egatāḷi)
Turkish: alay (tr)
Ukrainian: висміювання n (vysmijuvannja), насміхання n (nasmixannja), посміх m (posmix), глузування n (hluzuvannja)