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derisively

Adverb

Meaning

in a disrespectful and mocking manner

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"Great-grandfather died under strange circumstances. He opened a vein in his bath." "I never knew baths had veins," protested Gabrilowitsch." "I never knew his great-grandfather had a ba-" began Falcovsky derisively. S. J. Perelman

`Sorry,' she repeated derisively Source: Internet

During the 1980s, influenced by the success of the 1982 feature film Conan the Barbarian many cheaply made fantasy films were released that came to be derisively known as "Sword & Sorcery". Source: Internet

AC1: "We are derisively laughing about how you’re the best example of the Donning-Kruger Effect we’ve seen in quite a while." Source: Internet

He approached Groucho about doing a quiz show, to which Groucho derisively retorted, "A quiz show? Source: Internet

How well I remember John Roche, a political scientist then working in the Johnson White House, being quoted by the columnist Jimmy Breslin as having derisively labeled the radicals a bunch of “Upper West Side jackal bins.” Source: Internet

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