derisory

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Notwithstanding the derisory mood of the 1970s, the sense of loss and of destiny denied would arrive much later.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

"All too often, the sentences handed down against the perpetrators of antisemitic offences and crimes seem derisory," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

She also described the offer of compensation to people living near the pylon route was "derisory".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

Tanya Wakeley, a teacher St Cecilia's College in Londonderry, and vice president of the National Education Union in Northern Ireland, said the 5.5% offer was "insulting and derisory".

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

And it proved, too, a thing quite puny and derisory, since here it is laid low, after having subsisted barely four negligible thousands of years.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter