derisive

UK /dɪˈɹaɪ.sɪv/ US /dɪˈraɪsɪv/
adj 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.

The critic's review of the film was derisive.

It’s a humiliating moment, to be sure. Tripp is riding to school with a bunch of other kids when a classmate pulls up alongside the bus driving a sweet, tricked-out truck, attractive young lady at his side, and shoots Tripp a derisive look.

2

Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.

The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.

noun

1

A derisive remark.

The three lambs stood at bay, huddled close together, and helplessly bleated feeble derisives at the wolf who has headed them off from safety; but their polite and Englishy tone was a source of Homeric laughter to this Thersites of the Pleasance.

He leaped over the embankment at the river's edge in such a manner that it appeared he had been fatally hit and was down for good; the Yankees shouting such derisives as "Another damn Rebel for hell," "Goodbye, you Rebel bastard," etc., didn't go right away to rob the corpse.

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