(a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
(2) Spanish football fans’ habit of waving white hankies tends to be derisive, signifying that they wish a hapless manager to be put out of their club’s misery.
(3) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
(4) Striker Gonzalo Higuaín was also the victim of fan derision when he came on to replace Karim Benzema in the second half, but Karanka insisted the Argentinian still has the backing of the club.
(5) And at the same time, speaking to black America, he branded Frazier an Uncle Tom, turning him into an object of derision and scorn.
(6) "I think 20 millisieverts is safe but I don't think it's good," said Itaru Watanabe of the education ministry, drawing howls of derision from the audience of participants.
(7) At which point – obviously – you reach the stubborn limits of the debate: from even the most supposedly imaginative Labour people as much as any Tories, such heresies would presumably be greeted with sneering derision.
(8) The launch of a Greene King “craft” range in 2013 brought angry howls of derision .
(9) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
(10) And yet for someone confronting futility and derision, he appears remarkably cheerful.
(11) For reasons which are unfathomable Daniel became a target for derision, abuse and systematic cruelty."
(12) The autonomy of sport must be guaranteed.” After attracting derision for last week appearing to suggest that football could bring peace to the Crimea through the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Blatter returned to the subject in an otherwise low-key address.
(13) You couldn’t make it up, could you?” He hoots with derisive laughter.
(14) Another theory, which goes back in some form to ancient Greek philosophy, argues that all laughter is an expression of superiority: it is, in other words, always an aggressive response, a form of derision or mockery (laughing at, rather than with).
(15) The AU delegation - made up of South Africa , Uganda, Mauritania, Congo-Brazzaville and Mali - left the talks looking glum, without making a public comment and to the derisive shouts of the protesters outside the hotel.
(16) Gold swiftly retweeted the picture, prompting widespread derision, before explaining his error by claiming he had not realised it was an image of Antonio but while the winger was not offended, the label stuck.
(17) The explanation was greeted with derision by Kenyans on Twitter.
(18) He was very firm of purpose and yet a gay, exuberant, laughing man – gloom, cynicism, derision, despair, all peculiarly Irish devils, could not hold up their heads in his company.
(19) But the easy derision for those public figures probably grows from the sense that music, acting and even reporting all are easy pursuits.
(20) Additional information provided indicated that the most helpful categories of interventions included (1) validation; (2) advocacy; (3) empathic understanding; and (4) absence of derision or contempt.
Derisory
Definition:
(a.) Derisive; mocking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of the region’s politicians are unhappy with the size of the financial offer, with some describing it as “derisory”.
(2) Having sold his once-expensive books of literary theory for a derisory sum, he finds himself in a food store for "the super-gentry of SoHo and Tribeca", where the midsize piece of wild salmon he has selected has just been priced at $78.40 (2001 rates).
(3) Boris Johnson, the London mayor, also made another critical intervention, after previously having suggested the sum paid was “derisory”.
(4) However, the existing such capacity within the multilateral system is derisory.
(5) High interest current accounts Although most easy access accounts pay a derisory rate of around 1%, some high interest savings accounts pay many multiples of that, although they come with conditions.
(6) Labour offered £8 an hour by 2020, which was derisory (as many of us pointed out at the time ), and now you’re kicking off because £9 an hour by 2020 doesn’t quite meet the technical specifics of a “living wage”!
(7) Manchester United have had a joint £28m bid for Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines rejected by Everton, with the Merseyside club blasting their rivals for the "insulting and derisory" offer.
(8) Best lines Corbyn cited the Tories’ internal conflict over exactly how successful the Google tax deal is, saying the chancellor described it as a “major success”, the prime minister’s official spokesman called it a “step forward” and the mayor of London labelled it “derisory”.
(9) However, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, was quick to pour scorn on the “derisory” payment, arguing the public would be extremely sceptical about what he warned looked like a “sweetheart deal”.
(10) A "derisory and insulting" joint £28m bid for Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini, followed by hypocritical comments from Moyes over Martínez's refusal to bow down to United, has sadly damaged at a stroke a relationship built over 11 years.
(11) And then there's the derisory cost to the company of sending snippets of data such as text messages – which can cost the user 14p a pop.
(12) One of his nicknames is “689”, a derisory reference to the number of votes that earned Leung his job.
(13) Their fevered pursuit of Labor on fiscal policy came down to a derisory 0.4% difference in approach.
(14) ActionAid’s groundbreaking Calling Time report found that Accra Brewery’s tax bills for the four years amounted to a derisory £216,000.
(15) He is awaiting Kraft's formal offer document, and will then have to set out Cadbury's defence against a bid the company has described as "derisory" – the standard response from any firm facing an unwanted bid.
(16) But, she said: “I am now too old to get a job.” In Greece , where economic output has fallen by a quarter and the unemployment rate is 26%, employers can pick and choose, and offer the successful applicants pay that would have seemed derisory before the country’s descent into its economic hell.
(17) Those bids were immediately rejected out of hand as derisory and insulting.
(18) Only 14 bids, with the winner paying a derisory £67.50.
(19) Cadbury today rejected a hostile takeover bid from Kraft as "derisory" and not "remotely close" to its true value after the world's second largest food conglomerate took its bid directly to shareholders.
(20) The latest offer from the government remains derisory and insulting.