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# How to pronounce "deriding" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/dɛrɪdɪng/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **de·ri·ding**

## Meaning & Usage

### VERB
- present participle and gerund of deride

### NOUN
- An act of derision.
  - *Example*: "The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]"

### Example Sentences
- "The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]"
- "deriding comments on Meloni and on Italy as a as a by reflection have been escalating. They started off after Meloni you know"
- "deriding those. I actually think that is part of the kind of response that ought to be made. I don't think it's"

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "deriding" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "because you know Trump's you know attacks Trump's you know deriding comments on Meloni and on Italy as a as a by reflection have been escalating. They started off after Meloni you know banned certain uses the NATO bases the US bases in Italy sorry for the Iran conflict so you know she would only"
- **Watch at 8:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9lbCZX4Bko&t=480s)

### Example 2
*Accent: UK*
> "deriding those. I actually think that is part of the kind of response that ought to be made. I don't think it's"
- **Watch at 20:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0LQaRXcGc&t=1209s)

### Example 3
*Accent: UK*
> "by deriding it." So, we weren't open-minded to ideas from abroad, according to the Daily Mail"
- **Watch at 33:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADny4f5o1Is&t=1995s)

### Example 4
> "If it's not deriding from the quality of your relationship-- does this make sense?"
- **Watch at 48:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpoM6GiF0Hs&t=2938s)

### Example 5
*Accent: US*
> "the president after deriding the idea announced that well he was willing to pay for another thousand resource officers for schools that doesn't solve"
- **Watch at 33:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bo2tYJTJck&t=2039s)

### Example 6
> "uses them to generate a ton of money and then directs absolutely none of that money back into the community that invented the music it's selling. People spend a lot of time deriding and belittling Black folk music traditions instead of studying them. And that's one of the big flaws with our current canon of folkloric recordings."
- **Watch at 3:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrRfOzhM2AE&t=200s)

### Example 7
> "You know, the comments range from a bunch of different things. It was people kind of deriding the building itself saying that it was causing displacement saying, get ready for a Starbucks to come and pop up. Comments like this are a common narrative."
- **Watch at 1:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEsC5hNfPU4&t=64s)

### Example 8
> "So when Reagan gives his speech first calling for a strategic defense initiative. And maybe it's very useful that his opponents immediately started deriding it as Reagan crazy, thinks he can build a shield over the country. Once people had that idea in their minds, once people had thought that thought, they couldn't unthink it."
- **Watch at 31:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gLyj7s4Yek&t=1903s)

### Example 9
> "have like arrive at uh absolute truth what he means which is what i assume he means by facts like things that are uncontrovertible and then somehow deriding feelings like feelings are not important to me like the whole thing is reality the facts don't even like facts is reality"
- **Watch at 64:01**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQh1ZNkC70&t=3841s)

### Example 10
*Accent: UK*
> "change which she's not a believer in particular about abortion deriding all of this as a sort of new front in"
- **Watch at 11:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC-BK02LzKM&t=675s)


## How to Pronounce "deriding"

- **Syllables**: de · ri · ding
- **IPA**: `/dɛrɪdɪng/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[deride](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/deride)


## Related Pronunciations

[deading](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/deading), [deairing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/deairing)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “deriding”?
“deriding” is pronounced /dɛrɪdɪng/ (de · ri · ding). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “deriding”?
“deriding” has 3 syllables: de · ri · ding.

### What does “deriding” mean?
present participle and gerund of deride

### How can I hear “deriding” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “deriding” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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