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Definition of Derisively
1. Adverb. In a disrespectful and mocking manner. "`Sorry,' she repeated derisively"
Definition of Derisively
1. Adjective. in a mocking and demeaning manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Derisively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Derisively
Literary usage of Derisively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"On eon's charges, entitled ' Truth's Triumph,' was derisively refuted by Masterson
in the ' Triumph Stained.' For the rest of the Protectorate Wildman kept ..."
2. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The word " Topinambour" is probably a French imitation of the Indian name for
the plant, and is now derisively applied to gross, savage, or ignorant people. ..."
3. Forty Years an Advertising Agent, 1865-1905 by George Presbury Rowell (1906)
"If the memorandum bills accumulated, it was still possible to care for them; and
other agents used to say of Hooper, rather derisively, that he carried his ..."
4. Contributions to the Study of Elliptical Words in Modern English by Karl Sundén (1904)
"... as an abbreviation of "Olympus", which was the name derisively given to it
for its smallness, on the lucus a non lucendo principle . . . lV. ..."
5. Solemn Mass at Rome in the Ninth Century by Oswald Joseph Reichel (1895)
"May He Who has inspired so many faithful souls to pray for unity, in His own good
time fulfil the prayer of their devotion, that instead of being derisively ..."
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