derisiveness

"Two weeks before," said Picard, trying to keep the derisiveness out of his voice.

They called her outfit, not without derisiveness, "the weapon of mass reduction."

"Let me guess," Paul said with typical 12-year-old-boy derisiveness.

Voler's confident smile broadened, stopping just short of open derisiveness.

The playwright didn't use up all his derisiveness on ruthless deal-makers - the rulers and the comers - of the commodities business called Hollywood.

The constant mood shifts-from frolicsome derisiveness to clownish, coquettish mirth-result in a lack of cohesiveness.

McCorduck writes "His derisiveness has been so provoking that he has estranged anyone he might have enlightened.

Still, the Patriots' running game remains an enigma, overshadowed by Brady and viewed with some derisiveness by observers as running back by committee.

She used to wear black high-top Converse sneakers and there was a certain degree of derisiveness about that down here in La La Land."

In 1998 to ease derisiveness, Odo changed the federation name to the Ryūkyū Hon Kenpo Kobujutsu Federation.

He sat amongst them, his dark face glowing, an eagerness and a touch of derisiveness on his wide mouth, something grinning and twisted, his eyes always shining like a bird's, utterly without depth.

Lavinia Wilfer - Bella's younger sister; George Sampson's fiancée; vocal and opinionated, the only character who will stand up to Mrs. Wilfer by matching her derisiveness and audacity.

Ciminera and I once were co-drivers in a race at Lime Rock, Conn., so he was kindly on the phone, although there was a shuushhh of derisiveness in the wires, no doubt a result of crossed conversations.

The derisiveness hit a new intensity on Tuesday, when State Senator William L. Gormley, a Republican from Atlantic County, began broadcasting ads contending that Mr. McGreevey's casino tax plan was unfairly skewed to help "his billionaire pal, Donald Trump."