Meaning of DERISIVE
| Pronunciation: | | di'rIsiv
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| | Definition: | | [adj] abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" |
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| | Synonyms: | | disrespectful, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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| | Definition: | | \De*ri"sive\, a.
Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.
``Derisive taunts.'' --Pope. -- {De*ri"sive*ly}, adv. --
{De*ri"sive*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abusive, arrogant, audacious, aweless, back-biting, bantering, belittling, biggety, bitchy, blackening, blameful, bluff, bold, booing, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling, catty, censorious, chaffing, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, crusty, damnatory, daring, defamatory, defiant, defying, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, facy, fleering, flip, flippant, fooling, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, grinning, hissing, hooting, impertinent, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, jeering, joshing, judgmental, kidding, leering, libelous, malapert, minimizing, mocking, nervy, objurgatory, panning, pejorative, pert, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, regardless of consequences, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucy, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, uncalled-for, vilifying, vituperative, wise-ass |
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