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"derisively" Definitions
  1. in an unkind way that shows you think somebody/something is silly

278 Sentences With "derisively"

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" In private, he referred to him derisively as "Mr.
That island has been derisively nicknamed "Pedophile Island" by locals.
"He mistreats people, speaks derisively of people," Regalado told the Herald.
It's derisively called "horse race journalism" and it deserves the criticism.
" He added, laughing derisively: "We're not even going to ignore them.
Daniels responded derisively to Trump's attack with a tweet of her own.
"Someone needs to learn more about witchcraft, it seems," they wrote derisively.
It was sometimes derisively referred to as Sin City or Little Chicago.
" ... WashPost: "Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as 'Mr.
"Well, they didn't have stucco back then," the substitute teacher said derisively.
The official spoke derisively of one presentation she gave in the Situation Room.
" In neighboring China, people derisively refer to him as "Kim Fatty the Third.
Bavarians still sometimes refer to the Germans to the north, derisively, as Prussians.
FOIA advocates derisively call it the "withhold it because you want to" exemption.
Apartheid passbooks were derisively called dompas, or "dumb pass," by the black population.
Elizabeth Warren, who he derisively calls Pocahontas, referencing her rebound in the polls.
Backstage — and throughout the episode — Bette addresses Joan derisively as "Lucille," her birth name.
Obamacare as Republicans would derisively call it was to be the end of America.
The derisively titled "Cretin" (1924) depicts a dwarf standing between handles of a pushcart.
" The next year, she derisively described her future employer as the "Clinton News Network.
He speaks up now when someone speaks derisively of a person who is obese.
The robot was more statue than weapon, as one overseas writer put it derisively.
"You little pencil neck," Mr. Trump then said derisively, as if addressing Mr. Schiff.
"Oh, great, she had a showing in Chicago," Biden said derisively, according to Politico.
" Then he claimed Sessions hardly knew Rosenstein, who Trump said derisively was "from Baltimore.
He derisively called Mr. Rubio nothing more than a programmed deliverer of polished-sounding lines.
Its leaders are not afraid to use the word "capitalism," and they do so derisively.
Critics derisively dubbed them "the pre-Fab four" and accused them of intentionally defrauding the public.
" When crowds at his rallies chanted derisively about his opponent, McCain said, "We will be respectful.
In one speech, he spoke derisively of passing by "people who are nothing" in train stations.
It is not that those who are now derisively termed RINOs have left the Republican Party.
He derisively referred to the Massachusetts senator as "Pocahontas" and "goofy Elizabeth" on the campaign trail.
It is not without merit that they are referred to, derisively, as Canada's Natural Governing Party.
Scott has made scaling back the program, which he derisively refers to as "Obamaphone," a personal mission.
Republicans who derisively labeled the program Obamacare said it would cost jobs and wreck the federal budget.
At one school "concert" in our auditorium, the teenage audience derisively laughed at my wordy, confrontational lyrics.
Though Treasuries held in reserve by Social Security are sometimes derisively called "IOUs," they are not casual promises.
Megève is known, the French and Swiss I met told me, somewhat derisively, as the Aspen of France.
"They wanted to replace what they derisively called 'weather fallacies' with 'weather truths' or 'facts,'" Dr. Tucker said.
He initially refused to meet with the organizers, derisively referring to their initiatives as projects of the wealthy.
In public appearances, he has asked that protesters be allowed to speak derisively of him and his book.
" This was the moment the president believes he finally broke with what he calls, derisively, the "Washington playbook.
Warren's gambit was in response to repeated goading from President Donald Trump, who derisively refers to Warren as "Pocahontas."
People often derisively compared electric cars to golf carts until Tesla Motors proved EVs could be swift and sexy.
None of this has stemmed attacks from Trump, who continues to derisively refer to her as "Pocahontas" (The Hill).
This is what immigration hawks derisively refer to as "catch and release," something President Trump has vowed to end.
The nature of the allegations made for explosive headlines, including some that referred derisively to Ms. Hijazi's American citizenship.
That FOIA exemption is derisively referred to as the "withhold it because you want to" provision by transparency advocates.
Lindsay Alley: It's a label that gets thrown around—mostly derisively—for performers and poets who have a similar sound.
Sessions remains, albeit in what Trump himself derisively calls a "beleaguered" state, recused from anything related to the Russia investigation.
Others utter the phrase more derisively, talking about some bougie cocktail joint that opened in place of a comfy dive.
Derisively called a "pharma bro" on social media, Mr. Shkreli now uses PharmaBroMS as his handle in League of Legends.
" Since he took office, Trump derisively referred to immigrants from El Salvador and Africa as hailing from "s-hole countries.
Movies that stream on our televisions and computers still carry that stigma of the "TV movie" that Spielberg so derisively mentioned.
Some people in the media find this to be an outrageous limit test or what they derisively call a purity test.
A Trump administration, by contrast, wouldn't be afraid to stand up to the man Pence derisively referred to as a bully.
He derisively refers to it as "chain migration," a term that conjures up negative stereotypes of hordes coming into our country.
One picks up a discarded newspaper and chuckles derisively as she reads about the latest "alternative facts" peddled by Donald Trump.
But the firm—derisively dubbed a "great vampire squid" by Rolling Stone magazine—is in the process of seeing its tentacles severed.
Modi and other BJP leaders often use the expression Lutyens Delhi, where Khan Market is located, to derisively refer to the entitled.
Conservatives have long criticized the program, sometimes referring to it derisively as "ObamaPhones" even though it originated before President Obama took office.
Transformational politics is not simply a set of rhetorical flourishes that promise a pony, as some Democratic Party insiders have sniffed derisively.
And it was noted that he derisively described the drills as "war games," remarkably adopting the language of Pyongyang over the Pentagon.
The poet Amiri Baraka once derisively wrote that Lee was "the quintessential buppie," his work frivolous and bourgeois, but that is vicious.
"That's O.K.," he said, noting that some surfers will derisively say, "If you can't get up, turn to S.U.P." (stand-up paddleboarding).
Though a player reaching No. 1 without a major championship is often treated derisively, it has become the norm in the WTA.
While many have derisively labeled Clinton as conservative, or far from progressive, the fact remains that she is indeed a liberal Democrat.
He has spent time wooing the sorts of local officials whom he once derisively cast as part of the dreaded political establishment.
Bernie Sanders&apos supporters were derisively referred to as "Bernie Bros," owing to his rival Hillary Clinton&aposs stronger performance among women.
Coined derisively by a critic, the name was adopted by Monet and his fellow Impressionists, including Pierre Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro.
In American politics, there once were moderate Republicans known as "Rockefeller Republicans" later referred to more derisively as "RINOS" (Republicans in name only).
She points out that when departments began using community policing strategies in the 1990s, officers derisively called it the "Hug-a-Thug" program.
The NFL, referred to derisively as the "No Fun League" when it clamped down on end zone celebrations, has now embraced the trend.
The bigger picture: The Lifeline program is the object of political controversy, with conservatives branding it derisively as "Obamaphone" during the last administration.
In the 2000 hours since President Donald Trump honored them, the focus of media attention has been on his comment derisively calling Sen.
At his own hearing, Judge Bork had spoken derisively about Griswold and made clear that he regarded the decision as illegitimate judicial overreach.
But Trump, extensively and derisively, laughed off the idea of expanding the immigration courts as part of a plan to end the crisis.
By now, his reputation was so established among my friends that they referred to him derisively as "the Texter," never using his real name.
She defended Trump from the podium, saying the president was simply "stating facts" when he derisively imitated a woman's testimony against Kavanaugh last week.
When Ted Cruz launched his attack on what he derisively termed "New York values," Trump hit back in an unexpectedly moving and thoughtful way.
Companies and business groups say that what they derisively call "micro-unions" threaten to balkanize workplaces and pit groups of workers against each other.
The Associated Press reported earlier Monday that Miller is quoted speaking derisively about refugees in a book from ex-White House aide Cliff Sims.
Williams and her sister, Venus, for example, have been derisively referred to by tennis officials as the "Williams brothers" rather than the Williams sisters.
And when it comes to midterm politics, they like to mention, derisively, his scorched earth campaign on behalf of an accused pedophile, Roy Moore.
During the six and a half years since its passage, Republicans maintained a striking unanimity in their hatred of what they derisively called Obamacare.
The event is billed as a decisive showdown between established and highly contested governing circles, and what are derisively called "populist" demagogues and illiberal democracies.
That's a use of the curb that planners call, somewhat derisively, "storage"—today's private vehicles spend 95 percent of their existence waiting to be used.
Finally, there is what the English (often derisively) call the "Celtic Fringe": the other three nations of the United Kingdom — Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
In the chaotic early days of the administration, "Javanka" — as Steve Bannon derisively called them — were involved in almost everything, from personnel to presidential statements.
Consumer Watchdog, which has loudly opposed those vehicles it derisively refers to as "robot cars," eagerly claimed victory with the release of the federal guidelines.
They laugh and joke and talk over the heads of the rest of the crew—never derisively, but in a "this is for us" way.
Locals derisively nicknamed it the Unfinished Palazzo, but for Peggy, who was living alone with her dogs and her art, it was the perfect size.
I think that this notion of what's derisively called adult supervision, the people who are smart, I mean Zuckerberg went and talked to Bob Taylor.
The move was criticized by Native American groups and mocked by Trump, who derisively refers to the senator as "Pocahontas" at rallies and on social media.
But it's in poor taste to make assumptions about a person's religion — and comment derisively about it — based on their fashion, their spouse, or anything else.
RELATED: Bernie Sanders: Prolific Democratic Party fundraiser And Clinton slammed Sanders and his backers for derisively labeling opponents as part of the "establishment" when they disagree.
Yet, as always the mainstream media once again derisively criticizes the president for his initiatives to form such coalitions with unfriendly adversaries of the United States.
Charlie Sykes, a radio host in Milwaukee, who derisively calls Trump supporters "Trumpkins" for their unquestioning loyalty, subjected Mr. Trump to a punishing interview this week.
If you pay attention to class actions, you know that frequent filers – often referred to derisively as professional plaintiffs – turn up in all sorts of cases.
" Mr. Sarkozy would say derisively, Patrick Buisson, a far-right journalist and one-time adviser to Mr. Sarkozy, wrote in his recent book "The People's Cause.
Men in her own party derisively nicknamed her "Mutti," or Mommy, meant as an insult but now adopted by the public as a token of trust.
At times things got so bad with the Club for Growth that I and many other Republicans derisively referred to them as the Club for Democrats.
He referred to her as he did during the campaign, derisively calling her Pocahontas, a reference to claims she once made about being part Native American.
I want to be careful with that term, because I know some people will read it derisively, but I mean it with intense respect and affection.
The upgrades to the home some people derisively refer to as "Zumaville" included a swimming pool, cattle kraal, a visitors center, an amphitheater and the chicken run.
These are "startups" that might be derisively labeled as "doubles" or "singles" in parts of Silicon Valley, but we think have been substantially underserved by the market.
He derisively said Mr. Trump embodied "New York values," poked fun at his knowledge of foreign affairs and suggested that he was taking his cues from Democrats.
Apparently, in some quarters it is in vogue for punditry to comment derisively on the efficacy of trained personnel using pistols in opposing rifle-wielding mass shooters.
Nonbelievers were either few and far between in Colonial America or understandably cautious about making themselves known; clergy and magistrates rarely bothered to mention them, even derisively.
He uses his defense of Hart to speak derisively about a long-ago incident in which Comedy Central took him to task for using a homophobic slur.
A group of passengers — these people are known derisively as "gate lice" to frequent fliers — is surging toward the door anyway, jockeying for position in imaginary lines.
Raising him alongside her own children in the Gray House, as she derisively christened the president's mansion, Varina protected Jimmie until the Federals captured them in 1865.
More than anything, though, we spoke Spanglish, the blend of Spanish and English that some south of the border derisively refer to as casteyanqui or argot sajón.
Some of the political appointees derisively referred to career staffers who worked for them as "Obama holdovers," even if those employees had been in government for decades.
I imagine that this is what it must have been like for Kahlo, in her treks to American cities across what she derisively called 'Gringolandia' (white people land).
Shkreli, known derisively as "Pharma Bro," also manipulated stock shares for his company Retrophin, and used cash from that to pay back investors in his failed hedge funds.
"In 2014 they underestimated the man they derisively called a mere chaiwallah, or tea-boy," says Milan Vaishnav of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think-tank.
It's position that has derisively earned him the moniker "Putin's favorite congressman" and tied him into the daily trickle of news on possible collusion in the 2016 election.
Among other things, it would reform how agencies can redact some information using Exemption 5, which is often derisively referred to as the "withhold because you can" statute.
As an outsider, it's easy to look at Napalm Death's output and derisively say all their music sounds the same, but that's not only reductive, it's patently false.
Among its more controversial contentions was that a single bullet — derisively referred to as a "magic bullet" — struck both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Connally, who survived the shooting.
In particular, revisionist historians point to Reagan's enormous investments in the Strategic Defense Initiative (derisively known as "Star Wars") as playing a significant role in the Soviet collapse.
Since then, the Fed has been back to its policy making based on what some model builders derisively call a "kitchen sink" of judgmental and structural model forecasting.
In this conversation, per the Washington Post's David Ignatius, he derisively referred to the analyst as a "munchkin " and attempted to get him transferred to a different department.
In this conversation, per the Washington Post's David Ignatius, he derisively referred to the analyst as a "munchkin" and attempted to get him transferred to a different department.
The bottom line is, what Kierkegaard pointed out is a steady push in society toward more objectivity, and less engagement with subjectivity, with what is — sometimes derisively — called inwardness.
Some see it as a handout — it is derisively referred to as "ObamaPhone," even though it predates President Obama — and say it is a target for waste and abuse.
The president previously pledged to bring up the issue of Russian election interference after his tumultuous NATO summit in July, derisively referring to it as the media's "favorite" subject.
Is he the human tornado who touched down in Cincinnati last summer, smashing rackets into graphite bits, derisively calling an Irish umpire a "potato," and spitting the umpire's way?
What Michaels derisively calls "political correctness" is actually an attempt to reduce the harm done by these messages, to fight back against an ocean of negative messages about fatness.
" Few Democrats have voted against more Trump administration nominees, enshrining Ms. Harris in a group known derisively by Republicans and some Democrats in the Capitol as "the 2020 caucus.
Trump has long had contentious relations with what he refers to derisively as the "mainstream media," banning some news outlets during the presidential campaign and publicly criticizing individual reporters.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who along with other Trump critics has derisively referred to Barr as the president's personal attorney, called the move an "abuse of power" by Trump.
And Vietnamese families like hers would be among the hardest hit if President Donald Trump's call to reduce family-based immigration — "chain migration," as the president derisively calls it — succeeds.
My sons could tell instantly in their new school which kids came from families of the opposite party just by virtue of the way they treated them: kindly or derisively.
Daniel Keem, the massive influencer vlogger behind the 219 million-subscriber-strong YouTube gossip channel DramaAlert, spent the week around VidCon derisively tweeting about how irrelevant the conference is now.
For his research, Mr. Amarasingham interviewed a man he said was a member of Al Qaeda's branch in the region who derisively compared the group's handiwork to that of ISIS.
For his research, Mr. Amarasingam interviewed a man he said was a member of Al Qaeda's branch in the region who derisively compared the group's handiwork to that of ISIS.
The child of a cook and a maid—a "servant's kid," as he was derisively called—he rose from virtually nothing to become the most famous Chinese entertainer on earth.
Rather, they had acted within a set of strict constitutional guidelines set out by then Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo (derisively referred to by Wikipedia as the "Torture Memos").
The FCC subsidy program that pays for phone and internet service for low-income people — derisively called "Obamaphone" by critics—stands to be overhauled now that Republicans are in control.
There is also the Communications and Multimedia Act, derisively known here as the "hurt feelings act," that prohibits offensive messages online and has been used to pursue journalists and dissidents.
Critics of the no-deal doomsayers or advocates of a no-deal have dismissed the risks, derisively labeling it "Project Fear," a scare tactic by those who oppose Brexit altogether.
Quinn cited "paddy wagon," a term that was once considered a slur against the Irish, who were sometimes derisively called Paddies and were often portrayed as criminals in the 1800s.
By the time the film cut to archival footage of Mark Zuckerberg suggesting the solution to Facebook's 2016 election woes was more AI, my audience knew enough to laugh derisively.
Ghana is the jumping-off point for her first major solo international trip for Melania as first lady, a tour of Africa, a continent her husband reportedly referred to derisively.
It opens Mueller to criticism from Trump allies that he's not focused on collusion but is instead pursuing what some derisively call "process crimes" that may be easier to prove.
Derisively called the Iran Deal by President Trump, the agreement eliminated many of Iran's stockpiles of uranium and helped stabilize the world while ensuring that Iran couldn't develop a nuclear weapon.
Berlin is also alarmed at China's very successful economic cooperation with 16 Central and East European countries, derisively called "the new Europeans," in a "16+1" organization set up in 2012.
Macron spoke derisively last week about that procedure — which can lead to economic sanctions — as a debate of another century, where budget rules have nothing to do with sound economic analysis.
Trump has frequently hit Warren at rallies over the subject of her heritage, often referring to her derisively by the nickname "Pocahontas" and reciting inaccurate numbers from her blood test results.
Trump tweeted derisively about Yovanovitch as she sat in front of the Intelligence Committee describing the concerted effort by the president's allies to remove her from her post earlier this year.
Many craft brewers have called into question what it really means to be "craft" in an era of global brewing giants, derisively called 'Big Beer' by some critics, buying smaller brewers.
The Philly Taco was originally conceived of as the challenge, but some people referred to it derisively as an activity, because they didn't think it was too much of a challenge.
Enact: President Reagan initiated a major shift in U.S. policy through a policy pronouncement that became known as the "Mexico City Policy", but also labeled derisively as the global "gag rule".
States split on whether to abide by his decree, and for three years many celebrated the holiday on separate dates — with FDR's new chosen date being derisively dubbed "Franksgiving" by Republicans.
"The high priestess of fear is sitting in front of me," Mr. Macron said derisively, having cast his opponent as a dangerous extremist with deep ties to her party's dark past.
Bolton also doubled down on calls to implement a "Libya model" when dealing with North Korea, comments that Trump derisively cited as detrimental to U.S.-North Korea relations after Bolton's exit.
For the sin of altering his game to accommodate, augment, and amplify the skills of his teammates, he was derisively called a third wheel, a non-star, and worst of all, soft.
After reading such judgmental and unforgiving characterizations—like derisively calling Bourdain a "drunk" and a "junkie"—I wondered if Karr and others were watching the same show as the rest of us.
Bannon's project centered on opposition to what he derisively called "globalism": the idea of tearing down borders and linking countries through trade, immigration, and international institutions like NATO and the United Nations.
They saw Macron, who has a habit of speaking derisively of the working class (and pushing "reforms" that disproportionately hurt them), as merely the latest face of elite contempt for the poor.
And to think Trump "won" his exchanges with Clinton, you'd have to give him points for getting the audience to hoot derisively when he said he wanted to put her in jail.
If Democrats end up flipping state houses in places Trump won in 22022, they will have proved themselves capable of winning in the places coastal elites derisively refer to as 'flyover America.
" Mr. Toles posted videos of the episode on his Facebook page on Saturday and they quickly spread on social media, where the then-unidentified woman was derisively referred to as "Apartment Patty.
By the time that book appeared in English, the "myth" of Bolaño, as Vargas Llosa calls it (appreciatively, not derisively), had already spread throughout the Spanish-reading world; now it crossed over.
" Mustang has always been available in a range of different packages, but gone are the days when Ford offered an anemic base edition that was derisively known among enthusiasts as a "secretary's car.
When his wife derisively tells Marco that she has had sex "reluctantly" plenty of times in her life, the narrator agonizes over memories in which he may have pressured her into sex unwittingly.
But his most extended attack was aimed at Warren, a Democrat he has long targeted for claiming that she is part Native American and derisively nicknamed "Pocahontas," after the 17th century historical figure.
Bands like Korn, Mudvayne, P.O.D., and Linkin Park were stretching the term "metal" to its breaking point by making what we now derisively call "nu-metal"—the term I'm obviously co-opting here.
Several security council aides said Monday that they learned about General McMaster's selection the same way the public did and expressed concern that Mr. Flynn's associates, derisively called the Flynnstones, would stick around.
A pillar of the genre that would go on to be called, both derisively and lovingly, the "walking simulator," Gone Home shares as much DNA with BioShock as it does with Dear Esther.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is representing Trump in the Mueller probe, reportedly sent a text to a Politico reporter appearing to derisively suggest that the filing produced nothing of value.
It turns out that one of the weirdest things scientists have come up with, what Albert Einstein derisively called "spooky action at a distance," is more than just math: It's a fact of reality.
Trump has had a contentious relationship with some prominent U.S. news organization that he refers to derisively as the "mainstream media," banning some news outlets during the presidential campaign and publicly criticizing individual reporters.
He has raised little money, was once a registered Democrat and still refers derisively to his party as "the Republicans", as if it is some unpromising acquisition he has been arm-twisted into buying.
O'Connor derisively refers to Congress as a "debate society" when asked about the infighting and suggests that if he wins in August, he will happily work with Republicans in Ohio and Washington on issues.
By speaking derisively about the constitutional right to privacy, the nominee played into the opposition's strategy, which was to avoid a debate over abortion by using the less polarizing "privacy" as a stand-in.
"Grow my hair / I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morrison" he sneers derisively on "Anyone Can Play Guitar," a snotty and barbed grunge-pop number from Radiohead's 24 debut album Pablo Honey.
He has had a contentious relationship with some prominent U.S. news organization that he refers to derisively as the "mainstream media," banning some news outlets during the presidential campaign and publicly criticizing individual reporters.
Washington (CNN)An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to President Donald Trump's draft deferments after Trump called Democrats "treasonous" for not clapping during his State of the Union speech.
Rohrabacher, whose pro-Russia stance led to him being derisively nicknamed Vladimir "Putin's favorite congressman," allegedly made that claim during a visit in the summer of 2017 to Assange at Ecuador's embassy in London.
" The photo, which shows Gilda sitting beside a Muslim woman in a niqab quickly went viral after a conservative twitter account (@polNewsNetwork1 – since closed) posted it, writing derisively, "This is the future that liberals want.
Perhaps spurred by fears of repeal without an adequate replacement, the health care law derisively named for the president by its opponents has never polled as well or been as popular as it is today.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi derisively referred to the House version of the resolution as a "green dream," while only 11 of the 47 senators who caucus with the Democrats have signed on as sponsors. Sen.
Trump, known for coining insulting nicknames for political opponents, has derisively called her "Pocahontas" - a Native American woman known for her involvement in the early 17th century with the English colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Clinton's rival, spoke derisively during their debate in Brooklyn last week of her previous wins in the South, comments in which voters could hear a thinly veiled jab at primaries with lots of black voters.
And the campaign, which is coming out at a time when women's rights activists seem emboldened by the country's rightward turn, is intent on reclaiming the very descriptors that are frequently used derisively against them.
The locals derisively refer to the newcomers as "Okies," and, due to rising concerns of a labor uprising, the aristocratic landowners mistreat their migrant workers and promote exploitative policies to keep them subservient and dependent.
She meant it derisively, but if the juxtaposition between her speech and the coming Trumpocalypse reveals anything, it's that pandering to the "law and order" crowd is a lot easier than trying to make everyone happy.
Because much of the fraud happened during President Obama's first term, it was derisively branded as "Obamaphone," though the program has been around since the Reagan administration and the cellphone update started during the Bush administration.
Trump sought to undermine the briefing before it began, tweeting derisively that it was "another Russia, Russia, Russia meeting" and asserting incorrectly that it was being led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
"Throughout his presidency and especially as the House has ramped up the impeachment proceedings against him, Trump has railed against the Speaker, derisively nicknaming her "Nervous Nancy" and accusing her of being a "do-nothing Democrat.
Most of the people who listen, and deliver, to their voters are derisively called "populists" by politicians who failed their mission and, worse, by the media who ignore, or intentionally pervert, the etymology of the word itself.
This criticism played well with an electorate which feels that it has been unfairly left behind in the current U.S. economic recovery and which resents being forced to receive such derisively low interest rates on its savings.
The president was careful not to cast his criticism in political terms and never mentioned Mr. Trump's name even as he clearly targeted him — at one point referring derisively to "politicians who tweet" — and his policy proposals.
When asked about the criticisms lodged against DAFs, several leaders of community foundations tried to recast the blame toward what they refer to derisively as the "commercials": Wall Street institutions like Fidelity or Schwab or Goldman Sachs.
On raw ability, few in the underwhelming field — known derisively as "the seven dwarfs" in the political press — could hope to match Mr. Biden, who quickly outpaced many of them in crowd size and early fund-raising.
Tom Araya derisively referring to his fans who happen to protest the installation of an illegitimate, racist, ignorant, morally (and probably literally) bankrupt fascist as "snowflakes" is fucked up, no matter how much we all love his records.
"The men wrote derisively … about an array of people, including leaders of their party; political critics; members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; the news media … and a blind Cabinet secretary," The New York Times reports.
Many of its detractors have derisively tried to attribute the change to the rise of "call-out culture" or "cancel culture," but the reality is that the rubric of what defines goodwill is no longer limited to intent.
Speaking at an appearance with the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, Mr. Pompeo referred derisively to a 2016 warning from President Barack Obama that Brexit would place Britain at the "back of the queue" in any trade negotiations.
But in the intervening years, as millions of Americans have become insured under the law that was derisively tagged with President Barack Obama's name, the health care program has become more and more popular, even with Republican governors.
Mr. Trump framed the cast's appeal as a violation of "a safe and special place" — borrowing a favored phrase of the left and of campus protesters; it was not clear whether he did so derisively or in earnest.
For years memes derisively comparing Xi to the honey-loving bear Winnie the Pooh have circulated on the internet, so Pooh is periodically censored, like the character was Sunday after the term limits announcement, China Digital Times reported.
In search of that meeting, Ms. Bosman drove to a village golf club Mr. Claar had built, known derisively to his critics as the "Rog Mahal"; to his campaign headquarters; to Sophia's House of Pancakes; to city hall.
Amid tensions between the White House and the national media about whether reporters are covering the president objectively, Trump said in a tweet that he would not attend the function—derisively referred to as "Nerd Prom"—on April 29.
In Vietnam, where Mr. Moore commanded a military police battalion, he cracked down so aggressively on what he described as his troops' drug use and lack of respect for authority that they derisively referred to him as Captain America.
The move was strongly backed by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other longtime critics of the practice they derisively call "catch and release," whereby immigrants deemed low-risk are released soon after arrest to fight their deportation cases.
The president and his aides blame the nation's immigration laws — the president derisively calls them "Democrat laws" — for creating an incentive for migrants to bring a child with them to improve their chances of getting into the United States.
Over the past decade, a loose movement of academics, lawyers, and journalists—sometimes referred to as the New Brandeis school or, more derisively, as "hipster antitrust"—has argued that the move away from antitrust enforcement has been a disaster.
In closed online forums, several of the SEALs from his old platoon who he had accused of not being able to meet his high standards noted derisively that the holographic sight on his rifle had been put on backward.
New York (CNN)A white woman derisively labeled "Cornerstore Caroline" on social media has apologized after video of her appearing to call New York police to say a 9-year-old black boy grabbed her behind was posted online.
" His commitment to diplomacy came despite President Donald Trump's tweets several weeks ago that his chief envoy was "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whom he derisively referred to as "Little Rocket Man.
At the funeral of Jalal Talabani, Iraq's former president and Mr Barzani's erstwhile Kurdish rival, the following week, he draped Mr Talabani's coffin in a Kurdish flag, played the Kurdish anthem and derisively seated Iraqi dignitaries from Baghdad towards the back.
Firearms companies once engaged in what is derisively called "pink it and shrink it," offering traditional guns in feminine colors and promoting smaller guns to fit a woman's hand, which is not necessarily a solution as lighter guns have more recoil.
And then there was Desert Trip, derisively and accurately labeled "Oldchella," the mega-concert featuring Dylan, The Rolling Stones (who incidentally released their first good album in three decades in 2016), Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, The Who, and Neil Young.
Once derisively referred to as the Winklevii by Mark Zuckerberg, the brothers are best known for suing the Facebook co-founder and CEO over credit for the idea behind the company, a conflict famously dramatized in the film The Social Network.
But relief in a state that President Donald Trump once derisively referred to as "a drug-infested den" cannot come quickly enough for the wide network of families affected by the ongoing opioid crisis, which claimed 72,000 lives last year.
" They continued: "Members of the state Senate derisively refer to African-Americans as 'Aborigines' and talk openly of their aim to quash a particular gambling-related referendum because the referendum, if placed on the ballot, might increase African-American voter turnout.
Even in the current political environment that some derisively call the post-truth world, the past few days have offered a head-spinning series of revelations that conflicted with the version of events Mr. Trump and his associates had previously provided.
As they hooted derisively at their Republican colleagues on Thursday after a narrow, party-line approval of legislation to roll back the Obama-era health care law, Democrats glimpsed the mirror image of their own politically disastrous health care experience.
Urging China to put more pressure on Pyongyang and derisively referring to dictator Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man," the president issued a stern warning to the rogue regime in language rarely heard from U.S. presidents addressing the international organization.
A Rolling Stone reporter who had been spending time with McChrystal joined him on the trip and heard him and his staff speaking derisively about the political leadership in Washington, and witnessed them getting drunk one night at an Irish pub.
Even though President Donald Trump has derisively referred to her as the true Democratic leader, Waters raised just over $90,000 for the committee, even though she set a $1 million goal, while raising just $5,500 for candidates in the toughest races.
On two separate occasions during Tuesday's impeachment hearings, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) derisively referred to the impeachment inquiry as a "drug deal" — a turn of phrase meant to depict Democrats as being up to something illicit.
Nothing speaks to that idea more than allying oneself with Winfrey, who is among the few talents who have been able to elevate what has often been derisively called "broccoli TV" -- programming designed to enrich you -- into a viable commercial vehicle.
Before our meeting, his assistant warned me on no account to mention an article in which Liu called himself a tuhao , a term meaning "uncouth and wealthy," and applied derisively to those who have risen from nothing in China's hyperkinetic economy.
She's been body shamed in the past Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam winner, has dealt with body shaming before -- her anatomy sometimes derisively compared to that of an animal -- so the topic was top of mind during her interview with Harper's.
But even as some inside the White House -- in particular, veterans of the George H.W. and George W. Bush administrations -- issued desperate warnings, others recognized that these "special people," as one former senior West Winger derisively called them, served as a valuable diversion.
President Trump is right to view some international institutions derisively, such as the UN Human Rights Council, but the global system as a whole is preferable to the global jungle that preceded World War II or the unpredictable outcome following any U.S. disengagement.
The moderate wing of the party -- derisively termed "liberals" by those further left -- is loath to give over power to the progressive insurgency, which holds up Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's loss as proof Democrats needs to fundamentally remake -- and elevate -- their economic message.
In "Gifts of Deceit," a 21972 book about the Korean scandals, Robert Boettcher, who had been staff director of the investigating subcommittee, said that Unification Church followers, derisively known as Moonies, had mounted a propaganda campaign to intimidate Mr. Fraser during the hearings.
His government is backed by a so-called juntita of retrograde military officers and a bloc in the Guatemalan Congress derisively known as "el pacto de corruptos" for its efforts to pass legislation granting members impunity from prosecution for corruption and other crimes.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Melania Trump cuddled a baby, handed out teddy bears and beamed smiles on her first day in Africa on Tuesday, kicking off a four-country visit and receiving a warm welcome on a continent her husband once referred to derisively.
When frustration over Amazon's warehouse wages hit a boiling point earlier this year, the company picked a fight with Senator Bernie Sanders and his derisively named "Stop BEZOS Act" before ultimately giving in and accepting the easy win of just raising its employees' wages.
The alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter used social media site Gab, the alt-right answer to Twitter, to spew hate toward Jews, while the alleged California shooter is believed to have posted on Facebook, derisively chiding those who offer "hopes and prayers" after mass shootings.
But the job of determining what is and isn't offensive is a complex one socially and linguistically, and obviously awareness of the speaker's identity is important in some cases, especially in cases where terms once used derisively to refer to that identity have been reclaimed.
Specifically, they insisted tax cuts and deregulation would return growth to its post-World War II average of 3 percent — a level, candidate Trump said derisively, that President Barack Obama became "the first president in modern history" never to reach in a single year.
John Kasich's team has turned its attention to Senator Ted Cruz, the "super PAC" supporting Mr. Kasich, New Day for America, has been parroting some lines from Donald J. Trump, calling the Texas senator "Lyin' Ted" and derisively criticizing his "New York values" comment.
President Trump has tried and failed to end a practice he derisively calls "catch and release," and thousands of undocumented migrants apprehended at the border every month are still being granted routine entry to the United States while their cases are processed by immigration courts.
It may technically qualify as a joke for Eddie to derisively refer to Katherine as a princess; just as it may technically be a joke for the movie to gawk at the gay character who lingers over Eddie's muscles for a second too long.
Readers will learn the lingo of Yinzers (Pittsburghers), Cheeseheads (Wisconsinites), Baja Minnesotans (as those from the Land of 10,000 Lakes derisively call people in Iowa) and Michiganders (a coinage often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, who used it as an insult during the 1848 presidential campaign).
" But he perhaps saved his toughest words for Sanders's online supporters, derisively known in some quarters as the Bernie Bros, saying Hillary and her women supporters "have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often, not to mention sexist, to repeat.
He may have spoken derisively about the enterprise in a general sense, but he clearly saw the potential of his company's devices to transform the way people worked by giving them access to tools and technologies that previously were not in reach of the average worker.
It turns out that while a president's philosophy does matter somewhat, bitter domestic politics, bureaucratic pressures, and what the president derisively referred to as the "Washington playbook" — the set of standard Washington responses to international crises — will have a powerful effect on any president's foreign policy.
Related: Pittsburgh Police Chief Orders Investigation Into His Own Conduct After Sending an Anti-Racism Tweet Messages posted in the FOP's private online forum also surfaced, in which officers appear to write derisively about US President Barack Obama and the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor.
The neo-Brandeisians (whom Wright derisively calls the "hipster antitrust movement") believe that the antitrust laws were written not solely to deal with consumer welfare or purely for economic purposes, but also to ensure competitive markets, break up vast and powerful private entities, and, in the process, preserve democracy.
He has tried to push changes to legal immigration by proposing to drastically lower number of people allowed into the country through family reunification, derisively referred to by Trump as "chain migration," and increasing the number of immigrants through merit — those who had specific skills or were highly educated.
Derisively nicknamed "Pocahontas" by President Donald Trump over allegations that she used claims of Native American heritage to get a head start in her job search — a claim she and former colleagues strongly deny — Warren has met with close to a dozen tribal leaders and prominent activists recently.
In the Telegram chat, the men wrote derisively and often profanely about an array of people, including leaders of their party; political critics; members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community; the news media; an obese young man who met the governor and a blind Cabinet secretary.
At one point, they spoke directly to the "soixante-huitards," the crusaders who took part in the events of 1968, "which you keep crushing us with": "You had the revolution, you knew how to share, you had camaraderie, you weren't glued to your phones like us," they intoned derisively.
Named Ruth and played by Julia Garner (Kimmy from The Americans!), she's a 19-year-old would-be crime lord trapped in a family of poor, blue-collar backwoods drug-runners, who are derisively referred to, from time to time, as hillbillies or rednecks or what-have-you.
As officials struggle to cope with the crush of asylum seekers, Customs and Border Protection began this week releasing asylum seekers instead of turning them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — returning to a practice Trump derisively called "catch and release" when he was a candidate and promised to end.
After years as a hated, hardworking good guy who wore jean shorts (also known, derisively, as "jorts"), cut lame rap albums, starred in low-budget action movies, wrestled surprisingly good matches against everyone, and nearly always held the WWE title, Cena has achieved even greater success by playing against type.
Older generations of Chinese, who suffered through extreme poverty and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, have criticized parents who make long, arduous journeys to live in the tents, saying they are raising children unaccustomed to hardship, or "little emperors," as they are derisively called.
And the team around Mr. Rockefeller, a lifelong Republican with a dim view of Mr. Carter's dovish foreign policy, collaborated closely with the Reagan campaign in its efforts to pre-empt and discourage what it derisively labeled an "October surprise" — a pre-election release of the American hostages, the papers show.
In December 1981, David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, asserted that the Kemp-Roth tax reform legislation was really just a "Trojan horse" to bring down the top tax rates on the wealthy in what he derisively referred to as "trickle-down" theory.
At the moment, any company that wants to sell in-app purchases or subscriptions through an iOS app must pay what software developers derisively call the "Apple tax": a fee of 15 to 30 percent that Apple skims off the top of in-app purchases and subscriptions bought by users.
Kim is also not a popular figure in China, where he is often derisively called "Fatty Kim," and some Chinese social media users expressed both dismay and amusement at the grand welcome laid on for Xi. "This is the emperor's visit to its vassal state," wrote one person on the Weibo microblogging site.
That is until Paul Joseph Watson, editor-at-large for the right-wing conspiracy theory-peddling website Infowars, shared a screenshot of the post (we assume derisively) and David Ley, one of the study's authors, responded:Asked about his tweet, Ley told Gizmodo the following over email:I honestly didn't even know who he was?
Here, in "The Last Samurai," the narrator tells us about the single sexual encounter she had with a British travel writer she derisively nicknames Liberace (because his prose style is facile and treacly): No sooner were Liberace and I in his bed without our clothes than I realised how stupid I had been.
In August, he gleefully endorsed a bill sponsored by two anti-immigration Republican senators, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia, that would reduce legal immigration by about a half, in large part by terminating the diversity lottery and curtailing family-based immigration, derisively called "chain migration" in their camp.
Mr. Trump has plainly struggled to respond to the reproach of a military family who lost a son, and has answered their criticism derisively — first implying that Ms. Khan had been forbidden to speak at the Democratic National Convention, then declaring that Mr. Khan had "no right" to question Mr. Trump's familiarity with the Constitution.
To his mind, the face of the destructive interloper in Upper Manhattan or Crown Heights belongs not to the guy in digital marketing born in Scarsdale who can't afford the West Village yet, but rather to the person who has landed in New York from what is so often derisively known as flyover country.
They are much further to the left than the Obama crew, but the group of progressive foreign policy advisers around Sanders define themselves by their willingness to defy the certitudes of Washington's foreign policy establishment, which they derisively call "the blob," and Sanders made it clear he will not apologize for his Cold War heresies.
As Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain was scrambling in November to win support for an agreement with the European Union on her country's withdrawal, Mr. Trump derisively referred to the deal as "great" for the bloc and said that it could prevent the United States from reaching a free-trade accord with Britain.
" In the same op-ed, however, Hoskin took issue with name-calling; though he didn't explicitly mention Trump derisively dubbing Warren "Pocahontas," he wrote that "when someone disparages someone else's family lore by dismissively calling them names or using negative stereotypes about Native Americans, that robs us all of an opportunity to have a meaningful discussion.
Ads from the Congressional Leadership Fund and the National Republican Congressional Committee have focused on Delgado's brief career as rapper AD the Voice, labeling him derisively as "big city rapper Antonio Delgado," questioning some of the lyrics in his songs and suggesting he would be more fit running in places like New York City or Los Angeles.
As for the Republicans, Donald J. Trump arrived to a hero's welcome in Bethpage, on Long Island, where he appeared before a crowd of several thousand people at Grumman Studios, praising the New York Police Department and Fire Department and reminding people that his chief rival, Ted Cruz, had spoken derisively about "New York values" once upon a time.
In an essay published shortly after the presidential election, David Rolf, an international vice president of S.E.I.U. from Washington state, derisively predicted that one likely consequence of the Republican victories was that members would be asked to finance new forays into electoral politics, at a potential cost of seeding the experiments that could one day produce a viable successor to today's unions.
It was no doubt in that spirit that he reacted so derisively to the umbrage that followed an N.F.L. playoff game this month, in which Vontaze Burfict, an excitable linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals, exchanged his team's near-sure chance to win for the even more immediate pleasure of trying to decapitate Antonio Brown, a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
" In pop culture, dick pics are often treated with an exaggerated squeamishness—in an episode of Girls, for instance, the protagonist and her friends derisively pass around an explicit missive from her hookup buddy, and, in a viral video of women reacting to dick pics, women disparagingly describe the pictures they've received with phrases like "huge monstrous elephant dick" and "more balls than dick.
And maybe in consequence he took out a hit on Trump's son, just as back in February 2014 he leaked intercepted audio of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland talking to US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and saying derisively "fuck the EU." We, of course, don't yet know what other meetings, phone calls, or emails may have passed between Trump's team and the Russian government.
While it may arguably be true that the failure of what Freedom Caucus critics derisively called "RyanCare" saved the administration from being tied to an unpopular and ill-conceived bill and having its agenda hijacked by a congressional leadership that does not share Trump's policy priorities, the narrative that this result was achieved by a band of members loyal to the president and his vision is pure fiction.
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"Daesh is genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology, and by actions — in what it says, what it believes, and what it does," Mr. Kerry told reporters in Washington, using the Arabic name by which many in the Middle East derisively refer to the Islamic State The Islamic State "castigates Yazidis as, quote, 'pagans' and 'devil-worshipers,' and we know that Daesh has threatened Christians by saying that it will, quote, 'conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women,'" he said.
After a seething Rebecca drove Jack home from the cancelled gig, they had the explosive, in-your-face fight that had been bubbling under the surface for so long, spewing horrible things at each other: Jack derisively called his wife "a 40-year-old woman singing covers in a pub" and that to call that a career was "ridiculous," while Rebecca scoffed at Jack saying that he would get help for his drinking, calling it "this alcoholism of yours" and "convenient" that it came at a time when she was pursuing her musical ambitions.

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