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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 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.
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."
Recently, the head of the California Bar Association delivered an address at the annual meeting decrying jokes about lawyers, suggesting that a man who had raided a law office and killed some people in it had been inspired or spurred on by the derisive attitude toward lawyers that “lawyer jokes” fostered.
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.