Derisory in a sentence

The majority got off and such sentences as were inflicted were derisory and were soon remitted.

And while £500m each year on cancer research, a derisory £5.49m end-of-life care research.

In 1946 Newman declined the offer of an OBE as he considered the offer derisory.

Worst of all, the benefits are derisory at best and may not even exist.

Secondly, those caught need to be handed down sentences commensurate with their crimes, instead of the derisory examples with which we’ve become all too familiar.

He was merely ripping her off, they said, with his derisory offer.

West Brom snubbed Arsenal's last-ditch "derisory" attempt to sign the Northern Ireland international, who is staying at the Hawthorns despite another month of uncertainty.

Unite said that the "vast majority" of its members in the affected universities have had a 5-6% pay offer imposed on them, following a 3% uplift for 2022 which was described as "derisory".

And that will be an iniquitous result because it should be flashed across the sky that this is only the start and will take much longer than his derisory six months to achieve a successful free trade deal.

The Government has told consultants they will receive a 6% pay rise but the BMA has called this “derisory” and said doctors have seen real-term take-home pay fall by more than a third over the last 14 years.

It is not uncommon for those who engage with data that challenges baseless statements about the Protocol, economic growth, and other policy areas beyond orange/green politics to encounter derisory or personal attacks.

But then again, if you only offer him a year and he feels it's derisory, he's going to leave to go elsewhere, and City are then going to have to go into the transfer market to buy a new player anyway, costing them more money.