Sentence examples for derisive smile from inspiring English sources

"It's from your brother," he said, and his face lit up with a derisive smile.

The infinitesimal silence that goes with her dubious glance — a tightly controlled eye-roll — away from the interviewer, followed by her ironic verbal shrug (a melodic "uh-h" with a subtly derisive smile), suggests the equivalent of, "You have no idea".

Reminded that Buddy often scolded one of his players with a derisive quip, Simmons smiled and said: "I don't think Buddy was mean-spirited.

Libération gushes: "Pedro Almodóvar [in Broken Embraces] gets from her [Cruz] something that no Hollywood production ever has – a certain smile, real tears and, above all, derisive humour at her own image and her celebrated beauty.

With a steady smile, his tone ranged from amused to mocking to derisive.

Rogers speaks with a smile, a kind of know-it-all-smile that somehow is not derisive but is more of an exclamation point.

Yes, President Obama was smiling during the White House Correspondents Associationn dinner on Saturday evening when the comedian Wanda Sykes made a derisive joke about Rush Limbaugh.

She made a derisive sound.

Derisive iconoclast, preacher and jester.

A derisive snort.

Other breeders are derisive.