noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hoot of laughter/derision etc
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Hoots of laughter rose from the audience.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
greet
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The Jospin administration's job-creating brainchild was greeted with hoots of derision when it was announced in 1997.
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The speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.
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My stories, however, were greeted with disbelief and derision , and I felt increasingly rejected.
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However, the move has been greeted with derision by many academics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.
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Raul looked him up and down, eyes opened wide with derision .
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She couldn't cope with that, couldn't face seeing derision in those dark midnight eyes.
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The dogma is of absolutes, the lifestyle is of attempted purity and the zealot is subject to continuous derision .
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Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth's six-page statement, the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism.