derision

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Act of treating with disdain.

   There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.

2. 2
   noun

   Something to be derided; a laughing stock.

   Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]

3. 3
   noun

   the act of deriding or treating with contempt

4. 4
   noun

   contemptuous laughter

Etymology

From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").