Noun
The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThat's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision. Ingrid Newkirk
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. Lewis Carroll
In the pulpit, hypocrites have been worshiped; upon the stage they have been held up to derision and execration. Robert G. Ingersoll
Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world. Stella Vine
Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. Eloisa James
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts. Robert E. Sherwood