Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being derisive.
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- noun uncountable The condition of being
derisive - noun countable Derisive behaviour
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Examples
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It gives me hope to see that health care reform has passed, but there is still so much work that we all must do, as evidenced by the ongoing debate and derisiveness.
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True to form, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board treated Dodd's protestations with the expected derisiveness:
David Fiderer: Worse Than Whitewater, Chris Dodd and the Phony Countrywide V.I.P. Loan Scandal 2009
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While others in the media followed the oil industry party line, The Huffington Post braved scorn and derisiveness providing a platform for a series of posts dating back to 2006 questioning the otherwise received truths ministered to a trusting and deceived public by the hierarchy of "Peak Oil."
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The proper response to this one is derisiveness, ridicule, and laughter.
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Krauthammer in April summed up his European tour pretty well too: “indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Varieties of Realism and Idealism in the Obama Administration: 2009
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Make this a demonstration of how you oppose political derisiveness.
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What stumps me is how any but the very wealthy can support the current McCain-Palin campaign with their sniggering derisiveness at ideas that paying taxes is patriotic or that spreading the wealth around is a good thing.
Karen Kisslinger: The Re-New Deal, The Palin Effect and Spreading the Wealth Around 2008
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Even though I conceded my derisiveness, I also not that I have a positive attitude about the individual things in the picture -- except the political stuff.
Madison windowscape and graffiti. Ann Althouse 2007
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Actually, you rarely "readily concede" your derisiveness.
Madison windowscape and graffiti. Ann Althouse 2007
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And it takes almost no derisiveness to end most UU's willingness to risk attempting to bring their interior spirituality into words.
Archive 2006-10-01 Christine Robinson 2006
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