In education, when Asian countries top international tables of achievement, we make derisory noises about hothousing.
Sugar admitted it made him angry to have "derisory actions" brought against him by English, describing it as tantamount to blackmail.
However, Orient chairman Barry Hearn has said he no longer has any intention of bidding and Altman's comments must be seen as an attempt to increase competition in the new tender process and avoid West Ham making a derisory bid, which would allow them to effectively secure a 99-year lease of the stadium on the cheap.
"The derisory references to the 'politicians' choice', makes the blunt nature of the populist appeal clear," she said.
And our government takes in a derisory number of the most vulnerable, makes vague promises and robotically talks about funding refugee camps in Syria – camps that cannot save people from daily bomb attacks.
He was allowed just one hurried post-confession interview – a derisory snatch of evasive blather, which makes all of Gibney's intimate pre-confession interviews look creepy and pointless.
The British press and Europhobe politicians would go on portraying the EU in the most lurid, mendacious and derisory terms, making us look terrible in the eyes of Americans and English-speaking Asians, Africans and Russians.
The point being, school will teach you to think of addiction in a derisory way, which will in turn make you treat addicts in a derisory fashion.
Mr. Lauria criticized President Obama for derisory remarks he made last week calling his clients speculators.
In countries where significant numbers of trips are made on two wheels, not the derisory 2% or so seen in Jersey, they keep cyclists safe not by draping them in helmets and high-vis but by providing safe, segregated cycling routes.
