verspotten — meaning in English

English meaning

• deride verb To mock someone or something harshly and with contempt.
• flout verb To openly ignore or disobey a rule or law, showing no respect for it.
• ridicule verb To mock or make fun of someone or something in a scornful way.
• satirize verb To use humor or exaggeration to criticise someone or something.
• scorn verb To feel or show strong contempt for someone or something.
• skit noun A short comic performance, usually a few minutes long, with a single joke or situation at its center — the kind of thing performed at a school assembly, on a variety show or in a social media video.
• taunt verb To mock or provoke someone with insulting remarks, often to get a reaction.

Senses

verspotten is used for these senses in English:

• deride (transitive) To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.
• flout (transitive, archaic) To scorn.
• make fun of (idiomatic, informal) To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
• ridicule (transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
• satirize (transitive) To make a satire of; to mock.
• scorn (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
• skit (transitive, Ireland, Liverpool, Merseyside) To make fun of.
• taunt (transitive) To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.

deride — full definition

1. verb To mock someone or something harshly and with contempt.
2. verb To laugh at someone in an unkind, mocking way.

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