LekhoriLekhoriExpressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
The critic's review of the film was derisive.
Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.
A derisive remark.
The three lambs stood at bay, huddled close together, and helplessly bleated feeble derisives at the wolf who has headed them off from safety; but their polite and Englishy tone was a source of Homeric laughter to this Thersites of the Pleasance.
From the participle stem of Latin dērīdeō (“I deride”) + -ive.
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