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If the audience were disparaging, then they would not be bemused by it, but they would scorn it or something.
For SCs, don't just look at what the words mean but take into account the sentence as a whole. Something intangible lies in there. For instance, the use of the phrase "self-serving" almost certainly means that the author is against what the person in question did. In other words, he would support the audience.
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