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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,...
- "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...
- 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...
- 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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relinquished it. Tertullian, when he had
become a Montanist, used the
title derisively of
either the pope or the
bishop of Carthage. The
popes began to use this...
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disgust of
influential critics such as
Roger Ebert, who was
prone to
derisively condemn such moves, with
gestures such as "The
Wagging Finger of Shame"...
- 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...
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brackets to
indicate it is not part of the quotation. Sic can also be used
derisively to
direct the reader's
attention to the writer's
spelling mistakes and...
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Derisive term for an
intern who
dresses unprofessionally...
