derisory
- s incongruous; inviting ridicule
- Unlike Austria, the Spanish cable TV service penetration levels are derisory and the incumbent national telephone provider, Telefnica, is soldiering on with an outdated telephone .
- Yet when he delivers the film's dead-serious climactic line "You're the last living descendant of Jesus Christ" it got a derisory laugh from the Cannes crowd.
- Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down, you wretched fool" from his foes; from the rostrum came the perennial plea .