Sentence examples for slightly derisive. from inspiring English sources
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.
"The 'body shops' are not moving into our space," says Kundu, of Wipro and NIIT, using a slightly derisive industry reference to consulting firms that established themselves in the 1980s and 1990s by funneling Indian workers here for a fee.
But after nearly 60 years running the business and more than a decade on Forbes' list of billionaires, Leprino, worth an estimated $3 billion, is finally willing to be interviewed about how his family's grocery in Denver's Little Italy became the world's top producer of pizza cheese--the slightly derisive term competitors use to describe its mozzarella.
In the months that followed his election victory in May the nickname – and its slightly less derisive counterpart, Mr Normal - were justified.
In his grandfather's time, South Asian immigrants often were taunted with, "Go home, Paki!" Kafil was only slightly less derisive when he described the families from Romania, Bulgaria and other Eastern European countries that have moved into his apartment building in the last five years.
In Solondz's derisive image, the boy gazes up while remaining immobile, his eyes slightly open, looking possibly even dead.
She made a derisive sound.
Derisive iconoclast, preacher and jester.
Other breeders are derisive.
