noun
definition
A derisive remark.
adjective
definition
Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
example
The critic's review of the film was derisive.
definition
Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
example
The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.
Examples of derisive in a Sentence
Her derisive attitude will not be tolerated long here.
No one wants to deal with Jim beecause he is so derisive towards his coworkers.
She let out a short, derisive laugh when she heard the latest news from her gossiping friends.
Her latest email seemed almost derisive, but it's hard to tell.
Phin practically withered under the derisive grins of the school bullies.
The presidential candidate's badly prepared speech drew soft, derisive laughter from some of his opponents.
The street evangelist's message was continually met with snorts of derisive laughter from passersby.
He had a bad habit of talking to his employees in a derisive tone.
Such a statement would provoke derisive guffaws from enthusiasts wedded to the myth of England's glorious past.
Speaking in his own name, he is somewhat derisive about the critics of the first two volumes of his work.
I desperately race around the classroom, arms flailing in clumsy attempts to grasp at adolescent screeches and high-pitched howls of derisive laughter.
Especially sanguinary was the struggle against the prophet Maslama (Mubarrad, Kamil 443, 5), commonly known by the derisive diminutive Mosailima.
It should be remembered that the term "Abyssinian" is purely geographical, and has little or no ethnical significance; it is derived from the Arabic Habesh, " mixed," and was a derisive name applied by the Arabs to the heterogeneous inhabitants of the Abyssinian plateau.
Personally, I have to disappoint you again, but if you're taking a vote for any derisive activity, I'll cast my ballot for the boys, just on general principals.
Finally, when he officiated as high priest at the feast of tabernacles he roused the fury of the people by a derisive breach of the Pharisaic ritual.