derisive

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin dērīdeō (“I deride”).

adj

1. Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
   The critic's review of the film was derisive.
2. Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
   The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.

noun

1. (rare) A derisive remark.
   The three lambs stood at bay, huddled close together, and helplessly bleated feeble derisives at the wolf who has headed them off from safety; but their polite and Englishy tone was a source of Homeric laughter to this Thersites of the Pleasance. 1894, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men, page 173
   He leaped over the embankment at the river's edge in such a manner that it appeared he had been fatally hit and was down for good; the Yankees shouting such derisives as "Another damn Rebel for hell," "Goodbye, you Rebel bastard," etc., didn't go right away to rob the corpse. 1962, Homer Floyd Fansler, History of Tucker County, West Virginia, page 192
   Indeed, the power inherent in the labels attributed to them has repeatedly transformed these terms from allegedly scientific ones into colloquial derisives. 2017, Bogdadn Lesnik, Countering Discrimination in Social Work