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Example sentences for: derisive

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The practice carried over into Middle High German and Dutch, where it developed a sarcastic edge and became generally derisive.
That's not an appetizing image, but I'm preparing you for Ravenous , the cannibal saga I predict will elicit the most derisive reviews of any film this year.
As recalled by Peter Prichard in his book, The Making of McPaper , Neuharth condemned the "old journalism of despair," a "derisive technique of leaving readers discouraged, or mad, or indignant."
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.
That is because long before it became a popular name for a resident of Boston, warlike tribes had used Beaneaters as a derisive epithet for peace-loving agrarian Indians.