How to Use derisive in a Sentence

derisive

adjective

• In the third round, Gomez rocked Cota, then tossed Cota to the ring floor, prompting a warning and derisive chants from the crowd.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2022
• The only shot Simmons took was a dunk during pregame warmups that drew derisive cheers from the Philly fans.
  — Aaron Bracy, ajc, 11 Mar. 2022
• Trump has long struggled to find a derisive nickname that sticks for his Democratic foe in the House.
  — Lynn Berry, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• The idyllic scenes don’t square with the derisive language used decades ago to keep people of color out of the neighborhood.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
• The program centers on the lives of disabled swimmers who share their derisive vision of the world each week at training.
  — Sam Bradpiece, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• In ruling that Charles Miles should stay in prison, Sacks repeated that phrase often, in a derisive tone.
  — Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2022
• Slants founder Simon Tam said his goal was to reclaim a derisive slur and transform it into a badge of ethnic pride.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2017
• Yet the practice of ridicule used since the 1950s and the ease of repeating derisive mocking comments by media got pretty old.
  — Star Tribune, 11 July 2021
• Over the ensuing years Lopez has seemed to gather a force field around her, as if weaponized against derisive scrutiny.
  — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2022
• Laughter, of the derisive kind, can also be a means of excluding people, Dr. Provine found.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Robles chucked his bat, helmet and gloves, and crowd soon began a derisive chant at umpire Lance Barksdale.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Some were openly derisive of the U.S. electoral system.
  — Shashank Bengali, Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• He’s seen derisive comments on Twitter from people who live out of state that conflate Cawthorn with his constituents.
  — Lisa Rab, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
• Even as the draft has gone on the road, to Chicago the previous two years and now Philadelphia, Jets fans have kept their derisive tradition alive.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
• Trump said, using his derisive moniker for the young North Korean leader.
  — Matthew Pennington, Esquire, 3 Jan. 2018
• Bolsonaro replied with a derisive statement texted to media by his office.
  — Patricia Lara, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
• Jokes can be mean and derisive, picking on those who are different, establishing who is inside the group and who is not.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2020
• In this moment in our culture, people either respond to that in a derisive way or in an empathic way.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• Trump, if 2016 is a guide, will run a nasty campaign, full of derisive caricature of his opponents.
  — Sahil Kapur, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Will there be deafening roars and derisive chants and people insisting on doing the wave?
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• Trump’s derisive tone played well with the supporters — kept in the hundreds because of coronavirus — who were invited to hear him.
  — Adam Belz, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• By the time Castro confronted him, about 40 minutes into the debate, O’Rourke had gone out of his way to confirm his critics’ most derisive shots.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 28 June 2019
• Thomas and Lee have turned that kind of sickening hatred into a telenovela, spiked with easy targets and derisive laughter—by the many for the many.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• The public's treatment of Heard – which has been derisive and dismissive – underscores this point.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
• At the time of its release, the film received negative, even derisive reviews from a range of critics, including Vincent Canby, of the Times.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Democrats have laid much of the blame for the increase in hate incidents at former President Donald Trump's feet, citing his use of derisive terms for the coronavirus.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
• Oh, so much mullet hate and so many deliciously derisive mullet insults: The ape drape.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2021
• The loud booing began when Houston’s lineup was introduced, and the derisive chants soon followed.
  — Joe Reedy, ajc, 4 Aug. 2021
• The term is derisive and refers to local people who have a negative knee-jerk reaction to any project near their community.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• Rinaldi could only muster up a derisive bit of sarcasm.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024