sexta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2013

Word of the day: Derision

Derision: riso motejador, escárnio, mofa, menosprezo, ridículo
Synonyms: butt, laughingstock, jest, joke, mark, mock, mockery, sport, target
“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.”  (www.merriamwebster.com)   
“My remarks were anodyne, but some other snippets of marginalia were shrieks of derision“—(Paul Theroux, Granta 44, Summer 1993

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