We who are prone to snipe at ecclesiastical elephants for self-maintaining reasons also need to remember we are worth more than derisive laughter could ever take away.

Their lips don't move, but their voices and derisive laughter fill the air.

We need an alternative term for something that generates derisive laughter.

We even have our own derisive term for such a person: maverick.

But at least we have a term for this phenomenon of the five-day money-spinning pitch, a derisive term that cuts right to the heart of the matter.

This has led to use of the derisive term, big box churches.

The joints between the sections, however, make a rough running surface, prompting the derisive term clickety-clack track.

But when did naive and feel-good become strictly derisive terms?