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What is the adjective for derisive?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb deride which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

derisive
  1. Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
  2. Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. contemptuous, scornful, disparaging, mocking, sarcastic, scathing, disdainful, sardonic, sneering, caustic, slighting, denigratory, scoffing, insulting, jeering, cynical, contumelious, taunting, rude, snide, irreverent, ridiculing, dismissive, sarky, cheeky, flip, fresh, teasing, detracting, jibing, sassy, nervy, pillorying, lampooning, cocky, crusty, gally, smart, snidey, smart-alecky, out-of-line, for the birds, biting, satirical, disrespectful, cutting, sharp, derogatory, ironical, belittling … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It was a short, derisive laugh, and I smiled in a confused manner at my phone.”
      “Here, derisive mockery of the ladies' accessories offers a tactic for disarming the more disturbing, inappropriate laughter at play.”
derisory
  1. Laughably small or inadequate.
  2. derisive; laughable; ridiculous
  3. Synonyms:
      4. paltry, insufficient, inadequate, measly, small, trifling, negligible, nominal, piddling, miserable, pitiful, minimal, piffling, tiny, mingy, miserly, poxy, stingy, mean, token, insulting, contemptible, lousy, outrageous, nickel-and-dime, insignificant, meagre, inconsiderable, trivial, meager, inappreciable, scant, scanty, inconsequential, pathetic, little, petty, slight, exiguous, low, skimpy, insubstantial, limited, modest, sparse, nugatory, minor, picayune, minute, deficient … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Referees at this level are paid a derisory amount for their time.”
      “She peered at me through her Dame Edna flyaway specs with a derisory smirk.”
      “On reaching his room, he had collapsed onto his mattress with only a derisory attempt at changing for bed.”
deridable
  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being derided.
derisible
  1. Deserving derision.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. idiotic, daft, dumb, foolish, senseless, witless, brainless, fatuous, foolhardy, imprudent, inane, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, irresponsible, mindless, stupid, thoughtless, unintelligent, unwise, absurd, impolitic, pointless, rash, reckless, unreasonable, asinine, dim, imbecilic, loopy, nonsensical, nutty, ridiculous, risible, crackbrained, gormless, halfwitted, laughable, silly, wacky, barmy, batty, birdbrained, chowderheaded, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dopey … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “For a man who purports to understand Irish history it is an utterly bizarre and almost derisible statement.”
      “The notion that students should be entitled to rate their teachers is truly derisible.”
      “I arrived at the Exam Schools this morning to find that all lectures had been cancelled because of a derisible sit-in protest.”
derided
  1. simple past tense and past participle of deride
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mocked, ridiculed, taunted, scorned, jeered, ribbed, gibed, kidded, ragged, twitted, chaffed, lampooned, satirised, satirized, sneered, razzed, scoffed, insulted, disdained, roasted, slighted, quizzed, scouted, bantered, flouted, disparaged, dissed, pilloried, jibed, skewered, contemned, panned, tormented, dismissed, denigrated, knocked, slammed, detracted, louted, vilified, scoffed at, laughed at, jeered at, made fun of, sneered at, poked fun at, jibed at, pooh-poohed, ragged on, poked mullock at … more
deriding
  1. present participle of deride
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mocking, ridiculing, taunting, scorning, jeering, ribbing, gibing, kidding, ragging, twitting, chaffing, lampooning, satirising, satirizing, sneering, razzing, scoffing, insulting, disdaining, roasting, slighting, quizzing, scouting, bantering, flouting, disparaging, dissing, pillorying, jibing, skewering, contemning, panning, tormenting, dismissing, denigrating, knocking, slamming, detracting, louting, vilifying, scoffing at, laughing at, jeering at, making fun of, sneering at, poking fun at, jibing at, pooh-poohing, ragging on, poking mullock at … more
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