What is "derisively"

Usage examples of "derisively".

Even Dama Akantha, who had spoken derisively of the boy prince in the past, now nodded approvingly as he spoke, while Flavian was nearly vibrating with excitement.

Here in Long Valley, important matriarchies built their citadels near their fields or pastures, leaving towns to small homesteads, sometimes derisively called microholds.

Greene said, his lip curled derisively "With claws that could gut a space shuttle.

Incoming boatmen shouted at them in tones of questioning amazement, or warningly, or derisively, but Edge's ferrymen saved their breath and did not shout retorts.

In 1899, a patriotic secret society called the Order of Harmonious Fists - which the British derisively nicknamed the Boxers - began tearing up railways and killing foreigners and Chinese Christians.

Through them, one had a spectacular view across the river to the futuristic Flamme d'Or, the Phillippe Starke-designed building of black glass, a kind of tetrahedron on acid, surmounted by a vaguely flamelike shape derisively christened by Tokyoites "the Golden Turd.

Quite steadily she walked across the Turkish carpet and he sprang to open the door for her with a derisively gallant gesture.