Caterwauling~, applied derisively to inharmonious singing; also love-making, from the noise of cats similarly engaged.
In London it is used derisively of a countryman, and denotes a farm-labourer or clodpole.
He had no alternative but to laugh derisivelyand step into the ranks.
The lady's maid smiled derisively and replied, "Count, I await my lady's orders.
But the knave laughed derisively,--so derisively that the common people dubbed him "Sir Judas Stukeley.
The other Dutch privateers found it too hot for their liking and scudded for the coast, firing their stern-guns derisively as they disappeared.
Down went his companions rapidly, while the battle laughter of the vikings rangderisively in their ears.
From the completeness of the body-guard's outfit and the dashing appearance it presented, it was derisively known as the kid-gloved regiment.
During their stay at Helena Harry and Jack made themselves useful in looking after the negroes that flocked there for protection, and they were sometimes derisively mentioned by their comrades as managers of the Freed-men's Bureau.
It was to this affair that Caldelas had derisively alluded during the sitting of the war council.
This conquest, with which the humble cura had been derisively entrusted, rendered him master of the whole southern part of Mexico-- from the shores of the Pacific Ocean, almost to the gates of the capital of New Spain.
Laughing derisively at his pawing efforts to dislodge the clammy kelp, she drew him along until the streamer broke.
With a great effort she mastered the wild rush of words that sprang to her lips, and bowing to him derisively said, as she looked into his face: "Truly a most gallant husband and a gentleman!
Pointing her finger derisively at him she continued ironically, "What do you think, men, of that thing making love to me?
While chanting the funeral prayers and orisons of the Church, the natives, from a safe distance, shouted derisively and danced to celebrate their treason.
Next morning early they went together to the agent, derisively scornful of the gossips, who, to do them justice, refrained from unpleasant remarks.
The big window was full of faked brass-work which seemed to gleam derisively at a dirty card upon which was inscribed the legend, "Genuine Antiques.
Gregory twisted his mug derisively at these words, and immediately reflected that the business was beginning badly, for the person before him did not in the least resemble Feriz Beg as described to him.
On the summit of the tower of the citadel could still be seen the equestrian statue of St. Ladislaus derisively turned upside down between the severed legs of two felons.
Madame von Brandt laid her hand, glittering with jewels, upon the shoulder of her friend, and lookedderisively into the poor pale face.
Stuart, his competing candidate for Congress, a local orator, warmed by the enthusiasm of the occasion, uttered what was derisively referred to the next day as "flamboyant prophecy.
Nevertheless, for some years, because of the quagmire condition of streets and the frequent inundations from lake and river, Chicago was termed derisively the "amphibious town.
The Hillton contingent cheered lustily for Paddy and groaned derisively at his assailant, and went slowly back to their places, while the St. Eustace fellows were dispersed by some of the older lads.
Now the coat tails were even with the principal, now they had passed him and were flappingderisively in his face, and now they were far beyond reach.
The Canadian redskins remained upon the lake, with canoes lashed together by means of poles, and, floating to within bowshot of their enemies, yelled derisively at them.
Those upon the lake danced in the bottoms of their frail canoes, yelling derisively and singing songs of defiance.
Parish Thornton smiled derisively as he listened to that indictment, then he capped it with an ironic amendment.
But she only laughed derisively and sent him off to bring Quarren who had entered the Vernons' box and was bending over Strelsa's shoulders.
Innocent for a few moments of his meaning she smilingly andderisively defied him.
Kundry, he pointed out, had no such prayer, and he derisively sang the cries of amorous desire.
When she lay dying, and her people, seeking to trick her, asked what name the child should be called, she had smiled derisively at them.
The old woman eyed him derisively and promised him her support.
He began to descend the stairway, derisivelysmacking his lips.
He was derisively denied admission, presumably because he was beyond the legitimate age for juvenile contestants.
Once or twice she held up the sheets, examining closely the condemned passages; smiling derisively as she perceived the violence of protest in the broad, deeply indented excoriations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derisively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
