What's the difference between derisory and exiguous?
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.
Exiguous
Definition:
(a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although data are exiguous, justifying neither acceptance nor rejection of the hypothesis that ANF functions physiologically to regulate body fluid volume and arterial pressure, the current evidence slightly favors acceptance.
(2) There was an increase in phenotype HLA-DR7 incidence, with respect to a non-selective population and a decrease of HLA-DR1, as it has already been mentioned in the literature, the variations were not statistically significant taking into account the exiguity of the samples considered.
(3) Also, since there is a diminutive capacity for trust and an exiguous chance to reach out or respond to significant others, external soothingness becomes unobtainable.
(4) It follows a retro-aortic course and its terminal distribution is exiguous, compensated by a coronary pattern of right predominance.