| Something unhealthy in our political system causes each president to be portrayed in the most vicious and derisive terms. |
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| They were candidly surprised by how well it all turned out and my office no longer elicits derisive or doubting commentary. |
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| Then, with an inner laugh, knowing how this would affect her, he turned and gave her a derisive sneer. |
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| A yellow dog contract is a labor organizer's derisive term for an agreement by employees not to join a union. |
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| One was antonomasia, the usually derisive practice of describing an individual by a certain characteristic, then making it into a proper noun. |
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| When he brief the Subcommittee, his answers were both evasive and derisive. |
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| The derisive response of many Protestants the following day was to pin twists of sponge to their lapel. |
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| It was a short, derisive laugh, and I smiled in a confused manner at my phone. |
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| He was abusive, debauched, arrogant, derisive, intolerant, and possibly the loneliest man who ever lived. |
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| He had always kidded her about her faith, but lately his tone had been more derisive, mocking. |
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| In the interest of sparing feelings I have closed this entry to further derisive comments. |
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| To this end, helpful responses are mildly sardonic, while acerbic comments are scathing, derisive insults. |
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| If all goes well next weekend, his reign might end not with a bang but a derisive laugh. |
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| Their methods are always very slick and their message is always consistent and it's always delivered with the requisite derisive tone. |
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| At the time, I took those words to heart, mostly because there was no voice in the media to simply laugh out loud in derisive response. |
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| But the most derisive comments of all were reserved for my arguments about the moral and legal restraints on the early colonists. |
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| Include as many hails of derisive laughter in your answer as possible. |
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| Many of the young people are cynical, even derisive, about their religion. |
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| People tend to be cynical and derisive towards romantic comedies. |
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| Even raising the issue draws derisive and dismissive responses. |
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| He gave a short, derisive laugh, but the gleam in his eyes was bitter. |
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| For better or worse, the current tone is skeptical, derisive and gross. |
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| A quaintrelle did overlap with a male dandy for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow". |
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| History testifies that such derisive anthropological presuppositions have played a major role in the colonisation of the south. |
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| Such unification is brutal and totally derisive. It can cause rejection as well as ideological, cultural, religious and ethnic isolation. |
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| They discover that it's socially acceptable to flatter your bosses by day so long as you are blasphemously derisive about them while drinking with your buddies at night. |
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| The acknowledgment was merely a snort and some derisive laughter. |
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| I was pulled out of my trance as she let out a derisive snort. |
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| However, he is neither doctrinaire nor derisive toward his opponents. |
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| Recalling that Labour received a derisive brush-off from the White House before the 1987 election, I am thankful that Labour is now the only truly Atlanticist party. |
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| Regardless of the joking and derisive nature of these nicknames, the Arisen are a force to be reckoned with and instil both respect into their allies and fear into their enemies. |
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| Having covered it with this iron plate, they examined it scrupulously, and with another great derisive laughter, they expressed their satisfaction with the work done. |
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| This is not to suggest that there might not be circumstances in which it might be presented in a sneering, derisive, nasty tone but that is not what the Panel considers the present usage to be. |
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| Remember all the derisive comments about previous encounters? |
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| Its ludicrous plot about sex-hungry cannibalistic vampires in Paris drew derisive laughter when it was screened in Cannes and its gory scenes had even hardened horror fans retching in disgust. |
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| Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension. |
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| Twice today in question period government members referred to what they call the 45-day work year, which is their derisive and misleading definition of a 360-hour national standard. |
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| In Australia the unions orchestrate trade cases against Indonesian imports, the big supermarkets refuse to stock Indonesian products and the media are downright derisive about the country. |
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| A French satirical magazine runs some derisive cartoons of Muhammad. |
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| At times derisive, often scathing, he comments on the vagaries of the long election campaign, challenging some conventional wisdom in the process. |
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| Although he adopted the name Augustus upon his accession, he is better remembered by his derisive nickname Augustulus. |
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| I do not wish to have anything to do with such a democracy, and President Pöttering's derisive comments after the vote show that democracy in this Parliament, as in Europe, too, is dying. |
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| But somehow, when he hears the ugly words and sees the derisive expressions on the faces of the Anglophone students, he feels instantly small and stupid. |
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| Over and over again, participants made derisive remarks about how eight citations seemed like nothing to them and they wondered how many other vessels were getting away with overfishing. |
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| Letters to the editor may be printed if the editorial staff and publisher determine them to be of sufficient interest to readers and the letters are not derisive in nature. |
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| The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer. |
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| Such derisive appellatives, all too commonly applied to those with some early affinity for science, should be doggedly countered with whatever means we can bring to bear. |
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