What is "derisive"

Usage examples of "derisive".

Though the knight was escorted by Captain Bludder and his Alsatian bullies, several of the crowd did not seem disposed to confine themselves to jeers and derisive shouts, but menaced him with some rough usage.

The preteen Desdaine triplets, Withering, Scornful, and Derisive, whooped in delight.

Like Munch, Ensor, Nolde, Rouault, Kokoschka and Sutin, Dostoyevsky resolved purely plastic problems as a function of violent emotional expression, in which metaphysical or social sufferings were treated in a tragic or derisive fashion.

Fox gave notice of a motion for holding a parliament in Ireland, which, on the 26th, he withdrew, amidst the derisive laughter of the house, the honourable member assuring it that he deprecated the union of repealers and republicans in Ireland.

Honey, particularly, became more openly derisive of Mother, Eyes, Sapling, and those who clung to them.

So it was that Bethel and Toni, themselves still uncast for a play, had the derisive agony of seeing Pete Chew and the lugubriously artistic Harry Mihick rehearsing as the two telegraph linemen.

Hobie stopped in front of Webb, addressing him in a derisive challenge.

The frankness of such a secretly outspoken thought could not go without some derisive self-criticism.

The derisive term sacker came from the way some children who were bom with severe handicaps would be suspended inside one of their com-outer-controlled vehicles in a nylon hammocklike sack.

To cloud celestially sown, Ran venom of what nourishment Her dark sustainer subterrene Supplied her, stretched supine on the rack, Alive in the shrewd nerves, the seething brains, Under derisive revels, prone As one clamped fast, with the interminable senseless blent.

She wagged a derisive finger at the Verger, and, calling the children, went to get her scrubbing-pail and brushes.

Aziz grumbled as a crowd of grinning Bedouins hooted derisive advice and watched him struggle to get one pair of legs into the suit while another pair popped out.

Derisive Quote Marks school of thought cites George Kennan as another hero of the Cold War.

It is enough to say that the shipping-port and its cargoes outbound interested him deeply just now, and that the friend he awaited was Yarol the Venusian, in that swift little Edsel ship the Maid that can flash from world to world with a derisive speed that laughs at Patrol boats and leaves pursuers floundering in the ether far behind.

Arthur had courted laughter in many forms these last few months and he had been met with automatic laughter, polite laughter, nervous, scattered, and derisive laughter, and by the mocking laughter of naysayers who were more amusing than Arthur, so that the restless audience pivoted in their chairs and attended the alternative performance.