Example sentences for: derisive

How can you use “derisive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When a sleek and derisive colleague named Maxine (Catherine Keener) rebuffs his advances and mocks his art, Craig argues passionately on behalf of his puppets: He says that everyone longs to be inside someone else's head.

  • The practice carried over into Middle High German and Dutch, where it developed a sarcastic edge and became generally derisive.

  • Within hours, Salon published the reporter's derisive story about the press conference, titled "Bauer: I am not a slut!"

  • When a self-made millionaire businessman (Bill Murray) delivers a cynical, derisive speech to the privileged student body, Max recognizes a kindred spirit and aggressively befriends the tycoon, eventually enlisting him in his extravagant aquarium scheme.

  • Garry Trudeau, Bush wrote, was "a little elitist who is spoiled, derisive, ugly and nasty."


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