derisive
About 0.40 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
The critic's review of the film was derisive.
- adjective Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.
- noun A derisive remark.
Similar words
jeering gibelike mocking taunting disrespectful snide derogative sardonic sneering subderisorious
Often followed by
laughter laugh and smile of term comments snort remarks
Word family
derisively derisiveness derisivenesses
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