Definitions For Derision
noun
- The act of deriding or treating with contempt
- Contemptuous laughter
- The feeling that people express when they criticize and laugh at someone or something in an insulting way
Is Derision a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
10
The word Derision is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Derision in a Sentence
- One of the students laughed 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.