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adv. - In a disrespectful and mocking manner.

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Usage examples (4)
  • At some point during my time in Liverpool it became fashionable to sport what, if this were the mid 80s and I was Mrs Thatcher, would be derisorily referred to as "a...
  • The one-inch window of visible light is derisorily tiny compared with the miles and miles of black cloth representing the invisible part of the spectrum, from radio...
  • Abts 'quiet, unsettling abstractions were described, derisorily, by one German critic as the painted equivalent of geometric wallpaper from the old GDR.
  • PB&J always reminds me of the film The Breakfast Club, when Judd Nelson looks in Anthony Michael Hall's lunch bag and says derisorily, "PB&J with the crusts cut off.
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