He shook his head, radiating mild derision.

Meressa sniffed in mild derision.

All of them craved acceptance by Washington; all of them held "Europe" in mild derision.

An expression of mild derision crossed her face; I expected she had absorbed her father's attitude toward the Highlanders' ancient language.

The term is one of mild derision applied to folks who take wine very seriously.

Conaire sniffed in mild derision.

Suggestions here that Murray was at the forefront of a quiet but significant change in tennis tactics were met with mild derision by some readers.

He said "water buffalo" was a translation of beheyma, a word used by Hebrew-speakers like himself as a term of mild derision.

They smiled at Archie in mild derision and boasted that they had no robots; that they needed no metal caricatures of humanity.

The prospect of Arthur Scargill entering Parliament invites mild derision rather than anxiety in the suburbs.