Word Meanings - DERIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
Related words: (words related to DERIDER)
- 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.