Sentence examples for derisorily from inspiring English sources
"derisorily" is an accepted word in written English
It is an adverb meaning in a contemptuous or mocking manner. For example: He derisorily dismissed her suggestion that he volunteer at the local soup kitchen.
adverb
In a derisory manner.
In four of Iraq's 18 provinces where the Sunni Arab insurgency is strongest, including parts of Baghdad, there may be mayhem on January 30th or, very probably, a derisorily low turnout.
The media complain that these enterprises ("land kings", as they derisorily dub them) are pushing up property prices in expensive cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
In 1723 there was uproar in Ireland over the monopoly granted to the English entrepreneur William Wood to mint a debased Irish coinage, derisorily termed "Wood's halfpence".
More seriously, he writes here of his tussles with creationists and religion in general, but passes over his recent obsession with Islam almost entirely, except to compare the rich haul of Jewish Nobel prize winners with the "derisorily low success rate of the world's Muslims".
Abts' quiet, unsettling abstractions were described, derisorily, by one German critic as the painted equivalent of geometric wallpaper from the old GDR.
Google has been accused of being slow to react, and a report from the culture select committee last September branded its anti-piracy efforts to date as "derisorily ineffective".
Here one must wonder if some of the less high-minded aspects of democracy – what in India is derisorily called "vote-bank" politics, or electoral calculations based on ethnic constituencies – could have played some role in slowing the retreat from multiculturalism.
