Robert E. Sherwood

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

American Playwright

Richard Madden

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

Scottish Actor

Jacob Weisberg

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

American Journalist

Mona Eltahawy

What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?

Egyptian Journalist

Kat Timpf

In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in some times of terrible sadness.

American Writer

Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Lebanese Poet

Kamal Haasan

When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're losing a platform.

Indian Actor

Mariella Frostrup

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

British Journalist

Owen Jones

A sneer can often reveal far more about the sneerer than the object of their derision.

Joseph Stiglitz

America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.

American Economist

Derision often conveys strong disapproval or contempt for someone or something.

Negative Emotion

Use 'derision' to describe a situation where laughter or mockery is mean-spirited, not playful.

Harsh Ridicule

'Derision' implies intent to belittle and is often used when someone is being intentionally cruel.

Cruel Intent

 result women were forever the second class poppers of the UN system at the time the proposal was made it was greeted with incredulity by some and derision by others the United Nations create a new agency sixty years

Advocating for gender...

 gets better over time? Might we even invoke the admittedly old-fashioned notion of progress? To do so is to court a certain amount of derision, because I have found that intellectuals hate progress.