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Definition of Deridingly
1. adv. By way of derision or mockery.
Definition of Deridingly
1. Adverb. In a deriding way; mockingly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deridingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deridingly
Literary usage of Deridingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Belle Richardson Harrison (1898)
"Ha, ha, they deridingly laugh, These mortals—behold them look back ; Pursuing,
and gaining each step, Father Time follows ..."
2. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (1909)
"For in the heat of the discourse, I heard some of them deridingly speak of you
and of your desperate Journey, (for so they called this your Pilgrimage) but ..."
3. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered by John Bunyan, George Barrell Cheever (1850)
"For in the heat of the discourse, I heard some of them deridingly speak of you
and of your desperate journey (for so they called this your pilgrimage); ..."
4. Publications (1847)
"And when Sheriff Fielding, about ten o'clock at night, had brought them to the
prison door, he deridingly bid Mr. Weeks take his leave of all his holy ..."
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