derisively's Usage Examples:

Sic may also be inserted derisively or sarcastically, to call attention to the original writer's spelling.

They were rather ineffectual engines derisively called the Pullets by engine men.

Multiple MacGuffins are sometimes derisively identified as plot coupons.

The word enthusiast was originally used derisively to refer to a person possessed by God, or someone who exhibited intense.

460 – after 476, possibly still alive as late as 507), known derisively and historiographically as Augustulus, was Roman emperor of the West from.

and the Risshū, it is a school of Nikaya Buddhism, which is sometimes derisively known to Mahayana Buddhism as "the Hinayana".

sometimes looked down upon by other comedians, and the term is sometimes used derisively.

someone who is morally upright, in the same sense that "Boy Scout" (also derisively) refers to someone who is considered honorable or conscientious.

aroused hostile local attitudes with products sold by Chinese merchants derisively called zhing-zhong.

The term henchman is often used derisively (even comically) to refer to an individual of low status who lacks any.

works of Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875), for whom the term was coined, derisively, by critics in 1831, and of Émile-Coriolan Guillemin.

community was named after a nearby ridge of the same name, which in turn was derisively named from the notion the soil there was inadequate to support any crop.

In the post-colonial period, the term has been used colloquially and derisively to describe the staff of a person, usually a politician or corporate executive.

When the painting was exhibited in Paris in 1906 such works were being derisively labeled as the creations of Les Fauves (the wild beasts), along with similar.

to the Disney-owned Pixar properties, leading rivals and animators to derisively nickname the division "Pixaren't".

Duplessis had died in 1959, ending a period that was later derisively referred to as La Grande Noirceur (the Great Darkness).

Spanish TV buffs sometimes derisively refer to this show as "Sexiciones," due to what they consider crass, excessive.

umpiring games single-handedly in the rough-and-tumble 1890s; he was derisively called "Blind Bob" by the New York Giants following his role in the infamous.

In the same context, Germanic law is also derisively termed leges barbarorum "barbarian law" etc.

United States beyond the realm of academe and corporate public relations (derisively referred to as greenwashing).

Synonyms:

scoffingly; derisorily; mockingly;