Examples of derisory

• There the recently arrived workers had to endure appalling conditions living in overcrowded dwellings as well as derisory wages and exploitation at their workplace.

• Given the book's length, it seems not only churlish but derisory to suggest that it might have been longer.

• The unemployed have been assigned forced labour at derisory salaries.

• On the other hand, the roles are distinguished from those played by staff by their subordinate and even menial status and the derisory forms of payment which accompany them.

• How does it expect the work force to react when faced with the closure of one-third of the industry and a derisory pay offer?

• Penalties as derisory as that simply did not warrant the use of scarce police manpower.

• If it is not, it is derisory; if it is smaller still, it is an insult.

• However, compared with the size of the profession, one unit in nursing practice is derisory.