Sentence examples for be derisory from inspiring English sources

One might expect town planners to be derisory figures for the libertarian rightwing.

The only way to get ahead in TV fashion is to be anti-fashion, to be derisory of a whole industry and to emerge self-righteously unaffected by it.

(Any Mexican smallholder, sowing a dozen varieties of corn to cope with any contingency, would be derisory of agribusinesses' reflex of entrusting all its seeds to one genetic basket).

"That's derisory".

The pay is derisory.

In Colorado and Minnesota, turnouts were derisory.

The funds available for purchase are derisory.

Yet in Europe use of natural-gas vehicles is derisory.

Once fines, if meted out at all, were derisory.

"Morale is appalling and the pay offer is derisory.

But they need to: their cooperation before 9/11 was derisory.