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jeering, derisory, mocking

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

sarcastic

adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

barbed, biting, nipping, pointed, pungent

adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

dyslogistic, dislogistic, pejorative

adj. expressing disapproval; "dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'"

negative

adj. expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

sneering, supercilious, snide

adj. expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"

sharp, crisp, razor-sharp

adj. very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"

satiric, satirical

adj. exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine"

abusive, opprobrious, insulting, scornful, scurrilous

adj. expressing offensive reproach

foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting

adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous

adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

mordant, saturnine, sardonic

adj. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde

withering, devastating, annihilating

adj. making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert

insulting, scornful, disdainful, contemptuous

adj. expressing extreme contempt

contumelious

adj. arrogantly insolent

impious, undutiful

adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"

flip, insolent, impudent, snotty-nosed

adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

undeferential

adj. not showing courteous respect

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