Derision | Mean of derision in English Dictionary
/dɪˈrɪʒən/
- Noun
- the feeling that people express when they criticize and laugh at someone or something in an insulting way
- yells of derision
- The governor's plan was greeted with derision [=ridicule] by most journalists and pundits.
- One of the students laughed/snorted in derision at my error.
- The team's awful record has made it an object of derision in the league.
- “Nerd” is a term of derision.