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Definition of Deriders
1. derider [n] - See also: derider
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deriders
Literary usage of Deriders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain (1899)
"The deriders of his project were right — from their standpoint — for they believed
the natives to be mere wild beasts; and Robinson was right, ..."
2. Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to by William Smyth, Jared Sparks (1841)
"It was probably on this occasion that one of those deriders, whom I have just
alluded to, amused himself with putting out an advertisement in one of the ..."
3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1856)
"... deriders with dishonesty; for he says, that if ignorant at all, they are
willingly ignorant of the fact of the world's destruction by the deluge—an ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain (1899)
"The deriders of his project were right — from their standpoint — for they believed
the natives to be mere. wild beasts; and Robinson was right, ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"The deriders of his project were right — from their standpoint — for they believed
the natives to be mere wild beasts; and Robinson was right, ..."
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