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Recent Examples of derisive Yet their box-office take was negligible, and many reviews were not just negative but derisive. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 Fans gave up and drew national attention for paying planes to circle the stadium with derisive banners. Matt Baker, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024 Proponents of the fintech industry call the arrangement Banking-as-a-Service, while the detractors, primarily those concerned with the safety and soundness of the overall financial system, have used the derisive name rent-a-charter. Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 No matter its critics or the accumulation of derisive labels—corporate feminism, girlboss feminism, lean-in feminism, white feminism—a feminism of self-interested striving is the order of the day. Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for derisive
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Adjective
  • What’s even harder to believe is the ridiculous verse Wayne tees it off with.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
  • While season 3 has already dropped and delivered its fair share of ridiculous drama, fans shouldn't get too cozy because season 4 is coming in hot with even more secrets, scandals, and explosive revelations.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • There’s the undercurrent of politics stirring animus between the neighbors, with Canadians angered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his absurd aside saying perhaps Canada should be the 51st U.S. state.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
  • The concept itself is absurd, given the modest park features.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • Alas, during one night siege (silly enough to not scare the little ones, even as the entire village repeatedly goes up in flames), Hiccup aims his weapon at the shape of a Night Fury (no one, we’re told repeatedly, as ever really seen one), shoots, and … what!
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 June 2025
  • Still, sometimes Forrest’s demands seemed nitpicky, silly even.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • So why did a chess engine that came under the pathetic category and only looks one move ahead not just defeat but humiliate ChatGPT?
    David Szondy June 15, New Atlas, 15 June 2025
  • Not because ownership has had a change of heart, but rather as a way to address their pathetic offense.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025

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