(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.
Laughable
Definition:
(a.) Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.
Example Sentences:
(1) But yesterday the Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997, despite a promise by Gordon Brown in opposition of a "bonfire of the quangos".
(2) The finishing today as been laughable from both sides.
(3) The idea of having a nice glass of milk and a bath to help me sleep would be laughable.
(4) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
(5) After referring to Salmond's previous role as a horse racing tipster for the News of the World when Brooks was editor, Gray said: "SNP claims that these meetings were to promote Scotland are laughable as it is clear they were all about promoting Alex Salmond and the SNP."
(6) Such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible.
(7) The renewed debate on the nation’s constitutional future has led to some laughable abjurations from both sides.
(8) As for Hillary Clinton's intervention , suggesting in effect that Britain take lessons in value for money from the Pentagon, it is laughable.
(9) For those filling the streets of Moqattam, or the hundreds recreating the Harlem Shake in the same place last month, or the thousands who embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience in Port Said, the idea is laughable.
(10) The idea that New Labour or Blairism is or was social democratic is laughable.
(11) He says the BBC director general Mark Thompson's budget cuts "have cut flesh as well as fat" from BBC Radio, which he says is "laughably underfunded".
(12) Claudio Ranieri Leicester City manager A year ago his candidacy would have felt laughable given he had just lost to the Faroe Islands during a four-game spell with Greece.
(13) North Korea has demanded the US recognise it as a “legitimate nuclear weapons state” following its fifth and largest atomic test, adding that threats of further sanctions against the country were “laughable”.
(14) The case – and the laughable lack of scientific evidence for their claims – has been covered by every newspaper in the country.
(15) Such talk would have been laughable in the days when the US capital was dominated by one trade – politics – plagued by crime, and bitterly divided by class and race.
(16) But those who find Europe laughable, they must be countered, because Europe is not a lightweight.
(17) He told the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that he was "extremely proud" of his inclusion on the list, adding that the sanctions were laughable.
(18) "It's absolutely laughable," said a senior government source.
(19) And Comey’s call for “clarity and transparency” surrounding the surveillance process wouldn’t be so laughable if the FBI wasn’t aggressively trying to hide it’s all surveillance capabilities from the public, making law enforcement sign non-disclosure agreements as they hand out invasive new spying technology, and refusing to even tell count how many times they’ve searched through the NSA’s massive databases for Americans without a warrant.
(20) "Within the context of record graduate unemployment and student debt, it seems laughable that university leaders are hoping for higher fees and pressing for cuts in student support."