How To Use Derisively In A Sentence
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Turn the question around for a moment: what are the advantages of the newswriting formula I have derisively labeled "he said, she said?
Jay Rosen: "He Said, She Said" Journalism: Are We Done With That Yet?
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These were the failed and false seekers, and other Ringists derisively referred to them as `godlings" or ` godchildren ".
THE BROKEN GOD
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And this is not because teaching is laborious -- though it _is_ laborious, and thankless, too, beyond all other occupations; but because a number and variety of causes, into which we need not inquire, have combined to throw ridicule upon him, who is derisively called the pedagogue -- for most men would rather be shot at, than laughed at.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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Derisively fashionable and abhorrently offensive "Hitler" mustaches will be complimented by Cover Girl enhancements.
Charles D. Ellison: Open Letter to Kathleen Parker: You Went There
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Last week, under questioning by Carnesi, prosecution witness Michael Finnerty, a former Gotti crew member, testified that on the day of the DiBono murder, he was told by Carneglia and a second member of the hit team to never tell anyone, "especially John Junior," that the diminutive McMahon, known derisively as The Midget, was part of the rubout team.
Jerry Capeci: Intrigue at Gotti IV; Sammy Bull for the Defense?
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Kiddie care," she called the scaled-down plan, derisively, in private.
TODAYonline
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Oh yes, the LOOMING energy CRISIS…when MAJOR oil deposits have just been found off the Gulf Coast…AND the fact that the majority of people merely laugh derisively at the chicken-littling about “global cooling” during your average New England winter which is accompanied by the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes about “global warming” during summers in the desert southwest.
Think Progress » Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong
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In his latest memoir he shares that he'd like to" recast "the welfare net that FDR and LBJ cast while rolling back what he derisively calls the" winner-take-all "market economy that Ronald Reagan reignited (with record gains in living standards for all).
Brian Ross: Apparently, You CAN Fool All of the People All of the Time
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I snorted derisively from my spot in the darkest corner of the large room.
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Spin your wheels, the sky turns downside up, the redtail hawk whistles derisively, and nothing moves forward.
Hunting for lizards
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Steve nodded, and was turning away, when his eyes encountered those of the boy, who had evidently forgotten all about his "mither," and was grinning at him derisively, and in a way which made Steve's fingers tingle to tighten up into a fist and teach the lad a lesson.
Steve Young
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One of the soldiers, a tall man with blonde hair, snorted derisively at her.
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This answer came derisively from several places at the same instant.
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* I hope it is clear that wherever I use the word "fuckable" in all its permutations, I do so sarcastically, derisively even.
Not "legless": Ten pairs of legs!
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Once derisively referred to as the chanars (toddy tappers), the womenfolk of the community were never allowed to cover the upper portion of their bodies.
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What's peculiar is that town-and-country tweeds, sensible handbags and court shoes are exactly the clothes the current generation of middle-aged women derisively rejected - and may never have worn in our lives.
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Nancy -- my bosun; ain't he a peach?" was the answer I got, and from the mate's manner of enunciation I was quite aware that "Nancy" had been used derisively.
CHAPTER V
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a tendency to cleave to the floor; the walls at times undulated in a most disagreeable manner; people looked unnaturally big; and the "very bottles on the mankle shelf" appeared to dance derisively before my eyes.
Hospital Sketches
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A year ago I was asked my opinion on the anointment of Xi Jinping as vice president and leader of the "party of princelings," as the new generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders is derisively called by some in China.
China's Party of Princelings
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Rest assured, I snorted derisively when that prat gobbed off on stage.
The stupidity of youth
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The term neoconservative was first used derisively by democratic socialist Michael Harrington to make clear that a group, many of whom called themselves liberal, was actually a group of newly conservative ex-liberals.
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Of these Sturm und Drang is a slogan derived from a contemporary play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger performed in 1777, while Klassik is a term dating from the late nineteenth century to match Romantik a des - ignation first used derisively for the Heidelberg group in 1808.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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`Sorry,' she repeated derisively
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He stared at her, then curled his lip upward and snorted derisively.
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They derisively call the embrace of gay culture "pinkwashing" - a conscious attempt to play down what they call violations of Palestinian human rights by Israel behind an image of tolerance.
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When his neighbours twitted him with being too lazy to plow and sow, of "mooning" over books, and derisively sneered when they spoke of him as the Harvester of the Woods or the Medicine Man, David Langston smiled and went his way.
The Harvester
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I always find that any reference to a woman "creaming" (unless it's being said derisively) puts me off and throws me out of the story... because (I kid you not), it always throws me back to crude comments a certain highschool boy we both knew and didn't get on with used to make.
Prude
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My head felt like a cannon ball; my feet had a tendency to cleave to the floor; the walls at times undulated in a most disagreeable manner; people looked unnaturally big; and the "very bottles on the mankle shelf" appeared to dance derisively before my eyes.
Hospital Sketches
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In gang slang, the word "peanut" is used to derisively describe a rival gang member.
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Practitioners made it look up-to-date, however, by derisively highlighting the racism, colonialism, sexism and other failings that made past ages so inferior to their own.
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Adam snorted derisively and stepped away and up the slope from Joe.
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She grinned derisively while I seethed with rage.