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Mockery or
mocking is the act of
insulting or
making light of a
person or
other thing,
sometimes merely by taunting, but
often by
making a caricature,...
- Reality-based
community is a
derisive term for
people who base
judgments on facts. It was
first attributed to a
senior official working for U.S. president...
- "Club Fed" is a
derisive term used in
North America to
refer to a
prison whose accommodations are seen as less
severe than many
other prisons. Club Fed...
- treble. As a
derisive slang term, it
refers to a do-gooder or
someone who is
morally upright, in the same
sense that "Boy Scout" (also
derisively)
refers to...
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Derisive term for an
intern who
dresses unprofessionally...
-
longtime civic leader James S. T. Stranahan, who
became known (often
derisively) as the "Baron
Haussmann of Brooklyn" for
championing Prospect Park and...
- endearingly, or cordially. In the
Southern United States,
Yankee is a
derisive term
which refers to all Northerners, and
during the
American Civil War...
- The
Papiermark (German: [paˈpiːɐ̯ˌmaʁk] ; lit. 'paper mark') was a
derisive term for the Mark (sign: ℳ︁)
after it went off the gold standard, and most...
- no. 1.
Project MUSE. pp. 52–74. Look up pejorative, slur, derogatory,
derisive, or
dyslogistic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Media related to Pejoratives...
- cost
Lincoln political support in his district. One
Illinois newspaper derisively nicknamed him "spotty Lincoln".
Lincoln later regretted some of his statements...
