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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...
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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"...
- 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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longtime civic leader James S. T. Stranahan, who
became known (often
derisively) as the "Baron
Haussmann of Brooklyn" for
championing Prospect Park and...
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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...
- practice, many
amateurs claimed more than
actual expenditure, and the
derisive term "shamateur" was
coined to
describe the practice. The game underwent...
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secure their availability for the
majors and
Davis Cup. This
system was
derisively referred to as 'shamateurism' that was seen as
undermining the integrity...
- endearingly, or cordially. In the
Southern United States,
Yankee is a
derisive term
which refers to all Northerners, and
during the
American Civil War...
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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...
