Sentence example with the word 'derisive'

derisive

abusive, bold, challenging, defying, disparaging, gally, jeering, pejorative, ridiculing, smart-alecky, vituperative

Definition adj. abusing vocally

Last update: June 27, 2015


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One could hear their derisive laughter for quite a distance.   [Please select]

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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.   [Please select]

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Seeing the peril past, all the bystanders burst into derisive laughter.   [Please select]

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But the derisive laughter echoed on, and became louder.   [Please select]

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And his laughter was always derisive and full of malice.   [Please select]

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Lord Robert broke into a peal of derisive laughter.   [Please select]

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The faintly derisive smile died away from her lips.   [Please select]

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Derry laughed a sorrowful, derisive laugh, and then said almost fiercely, "You don't know me, lad."   [Please select]

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