Example sentences for: derisively

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

  • It's derisively known as "DWB": the crime of driving while black.

  • But the mail--now derisively called "snail mail"--is not the primary means of mediated communication; that is, communication at a distance beyond face-to-face contact.

  • Last year, he starred with Anthony Hopkins in David Mamet's The Edge . Daniel (37) is derisively referred to as the "TV Baldwin."

  • Inglis' spokesman derisively calls this Hollings' "I got you ...

  • ' There is much previously unrecorded material: button up `cease betting, or lower one's stakes considerably when one is winning'; kipping `masturbating'; sappho term of endearment used between lesbians, hence derisively addressed to passive homosexuals.


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