Word For The Day, Friday, September 5, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/5/03 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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deride \de*ride\, verb:
deriding, derides, derided; transitive verb
derider; derision noun
deridingly; adverb

1. To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth.
2. To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
3. Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule.
4. A state of being derided.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
--William Safire, "The Counter-Revolution," New York Times, May 22, 1989

Etymology: [Latin d r d re : d -, de- + r d re, to laugh at.]

[secret garden]

When Michael Vick was sitting up in the booth, glumly watching the game, he was wearing a sweatband around his head. It reminded me of the people that don them to go to the store.

[Argh]

I see. I don't get the baseball hat craze either.

I didn't get to see that game, just the highlights. I had the NFL package last year and could see any games I wanted, it was great, I could stick with the exciting ones, but the local cable here in Canaduh cancelled it this year because they didn't get enough customers last year. So, I'll have to suffer through lots of Seahawk games and local blackout effects from the Seattle stations. I sure enjoyed regularly watching Vick play last year.