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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gavin has derided McLaughlin's crusade for gun control.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier, was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.
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Leave it to the intellectuals to deride romance novels.
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Marxism has been frequently derided for its explanations of political behaviour in Western democracies.
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Other identifications - whether with feminism, the gay community, independent activist organisations - are derided as bourgeois and self-limiting.