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 Derisions 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
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Derision is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 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.

Synonyms for Derision

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