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.
