Sentence examples for derisive nickname from inspiring English sources

Landycakes is the derisive nickname critics have hung on Donovan.

The name invokes a derisive nickname for the prior president, Lee Myun-bak.

They soon acquired the originally derisive nickname Nazarenes because of their affectation of biblical style of hair and dress.

Calling himself by this derisive nickname is a way of crying out, "like Gandhi", says Mr Zhu, only partly in jest.

An April survey, for instance, found that 51 percent of Russians agree with a derisive nickname for United Russia, "the party of swindlers and thieves".

But he has also been more restrained in his attacks on her than some other rivals, usually choosing to speak her name without a derisive nickname.

Presidential primary fields of dubious quality often receive derisive nicknames.

The newspapers were full of derisive nicknames for it, like "Ken-gestion" and "Carmaggedon".

The giving of pithy, ominous, slightly derisive nicknames to people and things was part of Bingham's patrimony as a semi-orphaned boarding-school kid.

Even in derisive nicknames, she comes across as the stronger: Sarkozy is Monsieur Bling Bling; Le Pen has been called la peste blonde — a play on both la peste noire, the French term for the Black Death, and, more recently, la peste brune, which referred to the Nazi menace.

She and her producers use funny sound effects and toss off derisive nicknames — John F. Kerry as "Lurch" from "The Addams Family". To drive home her restrictive views of immigration, she'll reframe a mainstream media story about an immigrant as an "illegal immigration sob story". It's a rhetorical style that's made her a lightning rod for liberal critics, perhaps second only to Coulter.