derided
Treated with contempt
Derided is the past tense of deride, meaning to mock or ridicule with contempt.
Someone derided is treated as worthy of scorn: Critics derided the proposal as naive.
The word suggests dismissive laughter rather than mere disagreement—to deride is to belittle, not just oppose.
Ridiculed or scorned
- jeeredMocked aloud, scornfully
- tauntedMocked to provoke
- scoffedExpressed mocking disbelief
- sneeredSmiled with contempt
ridiculed · lampooned · heckled · teased · jibed · scorned · pilloried · belittled
Regarded with contempt
- disdainedRegarded with contempt
- despisedIntensely disliked, held contemptible
- loathedIntensely hated
- detestedIntensely disliked
abhorred · reviled · spurned · dismissed · snubbed · rebuffed · shunned · disregarded
Ridiculed through imitation
- parodiedMocked by imitation
- spoofedMocked through imitation
- lampoonedRidiculed through satire
- caricaturedDepicted with exaggerated features
burlesqued · skewered · send-up · travestied · ironized
Publicly accused or condemned
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- censuredFormally disapproved of
- rebukedSharply criticized for fault
- reproachedBlamed with disappointment
castigated · excoriated · decried · deprecated · disapproved · discredited · defamed · maligned
mocked
Ridiculed or scorned
sneered · ridiculed · lampooned · heckled · teased · jibed · scorned · pilloried · belittled · disparaged
scorned
Regarded with contempt
detested · abhorred · reviled · spurned · dismissed · snubbed · rebuffed · shunned · disregarded · slighted
satirized
Ridiculed through imitation
caricatured · burlesqued · skewered · send-up · travestied · ironized
denounced
Publicly accused or condemned
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- censuredFormally disapproved of
- rebukedSharply criticized for fault
reproached · castigated · excoriated · decried · deprecated · disapproved · discredited · defamed · maligned · slandered