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derision mocking scorn; ridicule lynch to seize and punish someone believed to have committed a crime concealing putting or keeping someone or something out of sight; hiding stride a long step gnawing persistent and troubling entranced in a state of fascination or wonder reprehensible highly unacceptable; deserving criticism bemused caused somebody to be confused or puzzled cowering cringing or moving backward defensively in fear regarded thought carefully about someone or something; judged wryly in an amusing and ironic way solemnly in a humorless or formal manner mauled beat, battered, or tore at a person or animal aloof uninvolved with people or events; remote meager unsatisfactorily small; unsatisfying liniment a pain-relieving cream or ointment fawning attempting to please with flattery disarming charming; friendly or trusting scornful feeling or expressing great contempt for someone or something brutally in an unrelentingly harsh or cruel way indignation anger about an unfairness or wrongdoing averted turned away appraised looked over; made a judgment about crestfallen downcast, disappointed, or humiliated