Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

held in derision

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables
held in deri-sion
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does held in derision mean?
simple past and past participle of hold in derision

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