His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.derisionde‧ri‧sion /dɪˈrɪʒən/ noun [uncountable] 
His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.
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- Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.
- Raul looked him up and down, eyes opened wide with derision.
- She couldn't cope with that, couldn't face seeing derision in those dark midnight eyes.
- The dogma is of absolutes, the lifestyle is of attempted purity and the zealot is subject to continuous derision.
- Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth's six-page statement, the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Hoots of laughter rose from the audience.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
when you show that you think someone or something is stupid or silly: His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders. Hoots of laughter rose from the audience.· The Jospin administration's job-creating brainchild was greeted with hoots of derision when it was announced in 1997.· The speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.· My stories, however, were greeted with disbelief and derision, and I felt increasingly rejected.· However, the move has been greeted with derision by many academics.
His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.