derisory in English

adjective

1

ridiculously small or inadequate.

they were given a derisory pay rise

synonyms: inadequate, insufficient, tiny, small, trifling, paltry, pitiful, miserly, miserable, negligible, token, nominal, ridiculous, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, insulting, measly, stingy, lousy, pathetic, piddling, piffling, mingy

adjective

• inadequate, insufficient, tiny, small, trifling, paltry, pitiful, miserly, miserable, negligible, token, nominal, ridiculous, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, insulting, measly, stingy, lousy, pathetic, piddling, piffling, mingy
• idiotic, cockeyed, ridiculous, absurd, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, nonsensical

Use "derisory" in a sentence

1. Nor is China’s offer derisory.

2. The number of peasant members was derisory.

3. Unions described the pay offer as derisory.

4. This crude critical ploy is derisory.

5. We were awarded a derisory sum.

6. Government increases in health expenditure are derisory.

7. Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr has dismissed Kraft's offer as "derisory."

8. Yet in Europe use of natural-gas vehicles is derisory.

9. She was being paid what I considered a derisory amount of money.

10. The company's profits increased 35%, but they've only offered a derisory 5% pay increase.

11. First, a derisory vote, after a contest creating a lot of thoroughly unhelpful aggravation.

12. Synonyms for Belittling include contemptuous, decrying, degrading, demeaning, denigrative, denigratory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory and derisory

13. That is a derisory total for a committee monitoring agreements on tobacco advertising and sponsorship.

14. And only a derisory 3% said they would want to live in Oxford after the war.

15. Few non - Japanese investors own yen cash or bonds, and central bank holdings are similarly derisory.

16. In last week's case Jackson was fined a derisory ￡900 on three charges involving an Austin Montego.

17. Were the contracts that were offered to the players as derisory as we have been led to believe?

18. Even if they did their jobs, and they cited those facilities for their violations, the fine would be derisory.

19. I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff.

20. "Kraft talks about discipline in making their derisory offer but it's really about management weakness," Carr said in a statement.

21. The costs of such negligence are low in Japan where compensation for product liability claims is mostly derisory or non-existent.

22. Cadbury declined to comment on the formal bid, but a source close to the company said: "The offer is unchanged and still derisory."

23. Sandbanks have appeared, navigation has slowed, fishermen complain of derisory catches, and the 60m people whose livelihoods directly or indirectly depend on the river are worried.

24. "Nicolas Sarkozy does not intend to give up on it, whatever the derisory manoeuvres that only serve to harm creative diversity, " his office said in a statement.

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