Derisive

Few of his rivals mentioned his name on Friday, while Mr. Trump repeatedly used a derisive nickname for Mr. DeSantis.

On first reference, the entry calls it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill without quotation marks or any acknowledgment that “Don’t Say Gay” was the derisive name the Democrats gave to the legislation.

There's no question the Nazis used derisive language to push back on their critics, especially against Jews, socialists, intellectuals, artists and others who could not be expected to fall in line.

A message in Shapovalenko's phone that called Russian soldiers "orcs" - a derisive reference to the evil forces in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books and a popular Ukrainian slur for the Russian army - was enough for them.

He was well aware of the derisive words many Jets fans had for his lack of production.

His party’s first principle is duplicity, so Joe had to learn to lie, loudly and with conviction, and even to act a bit (does he really practice that derisive smile in a mirror?

Blackface is a White person exclaiming with derisive glee, “Look at me, pretending to be Black.

By this time he was becoming known for his abrasive style, cutting down colleagues with withering remarks or saddling some of them with derisive names.

In many cases, the people who get in trouble for posting derisive comments online are often ratted out by their fellow employees, rather than being the victim of an intense HO surveillance effort.

Stoltenberg’s speech provided a diplomatic counterpoint to Trump’s sometimes derisive rhetoric, and the enthusiastic reception he received from both parties in the House was testament to an enduring pro-NATO consensus in Congress.

Tavares Jeered As Islanders Roll To 6-1 Win Over Maple LeafsFans also serenaded Tavares with choruses of "We Don't Need You!" and other derisive chants throughout the game, including around a video tribute midway through the first period.

The name translates to “Wive’s German” or “Wive’s Translation,” depending on whom you ask, and is a very old, very derisive, and very misogynistic term for Yiddish.

David Sullivan and David Gold, West Ham’s co-owners, were escorted from their seats in the 84th minute, sparking derisive jeers from the seething protesters, who chanted for the board’s removal.

In practice, Tusk’s method has involved mirroring Trump’s often superlative, and derisive, language back at him in a manner that is indirect and disarming yet firm.

Meet Don Blankenship, Republican candidate for Senate in West Virginia and stern opponent of, ahem, I thought no politician would ever top Trump for coining insidiously memorable derisive nicknames for his enemies, but I stand corrected.

With these words, the jam-packed assembly broke out in spontaneous derisive laughter.

European newspapers, especially those in France, were openly derisive, calling them bluffeurs (bluffers).

Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette.

In April, the opening night of his drama Le Roi bombance (The Feasting King), written in 1905, was interrupted by loud, derisive whistling by the audience..

It appears to be a derisive expression applied to various people perceived as heretics—first the Franciscans and later the followers of Wycliffe.