Usually means: Mockery or ridicule; scornful laughter.
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  1. derision: Merriam-Webster
  2. derision: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derision: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derision: Collins English Dictionary
  5. derision: Vocabulary.com
  6. Derision, derision: Wordnik
  7. derision: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. derision: Wiktionary
  9. derision: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. derision: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. derision: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Derision, derision: Dictionary.com
  13. derision: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. derision: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Derision: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Derision: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. derision: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. derision: Rhymezone
  19. derision: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. derision: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. derision: FreeDictionary.org
  22. derision: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. derision: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. derision: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. derision: Legal dictionary

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  1. derision: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Act of treating with disdain.
noun:  Something to be derided; a laughing stock.

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