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derisoryadjective intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or valuea literary snob, she invariably used the derisory term "the boob tube" when referring to television belittling, contemptuous, decrying, degrading, demeaning, denigrative, denigratory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disdainful, disparaging, pejorative, scornful, slighting, uncomplimentary aspersing, calumnious, defamatory, insulting, libelous(or libellous), maligning, slandering, slanderous, vilifyingabusive, opprobrious, scurrilouscatty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, unkind, virulentcritical, denunciative, denunciatoryacrimonious, bitter, envious, jaundiced, jealous, rancorous, resentfulacrid, caustic, scathing, venomous commendatory, complimentary, laudative, laudatory admiring, adulatory, applauding, approving, friendly, positiveappreciative, respectfulkind, kindhearted, kindly, sympathetic, unmalicious, warm, warmhearted so foolish or pointless as to be worthy of scornful laughterthe pawnbroker offered what I regarded as a derisory amount for the diamond ring absurd, cockamamy(or cockamamie), comical, derisive, farcical, laughable, ludicrous, pathetic, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, silly asinine, brainless, dumb, fatuous, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), inane, jerky, moronic, nonsensical, simpleminded, stupid, unwise, weak-minded, witlessbalmy, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, insane, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nutty, screwball, senseless, wacky(also whacky)fantastic(also fantastical), far-fetched, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unreal, unrealistic, unreasonableillogical, irrational for the birds earnest, serious, solemnbelievable, conceivable, credible, logical, rational, realistic, reasonable, sensible in 1618 |