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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abusive, arrogant, audacious, aweless, back-biting, bantering, belittling, biggety, bitchy, blackening, blameful, bluff, bold, booing, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling, catty, censorious, chaffing, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, crusty, damnatory, daring, defamatory, defiant, defying, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, facy, fleering, flip, flippant, fooling, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, grinning, hissing, hooting, impertinent, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, jeering, joshing, judgmental, kidding, leering, libelous, malapert, minimizing, mocking, nervy, objurgatory, panning, pejorative, pert, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, regardless of consequences, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucy, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, uncalled-for, vilifying, vituperative, wise-ass

Dictionary Results for derisive:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

derisive
    adj 1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule;
           "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking
           smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn:
           derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Derisive \De*ri"sive\, a.
   Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.
   "Derisive taunts." --Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly, adv. --
   De*ri"sive*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

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