Act of treating with disdain.
There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.
Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]
From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").
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