Those PRI leaders who remained in power acquired the derisive name of "dinosaurs".

As the derisive name suggests, it's an idea economists view with contempt, yet the fallacy makes a comeback whenever the economy is sluggish.

Gazans have a derisive name for them: "the Tunisians."

When I was a kid, growing up black in Baltimore, we had a derisive name for the corner store run by Asians.

Resenting this, and probably thinking that the requirement would be as short-lived as the fortunes of war, many of the peasants took derisive and ribald names.

Later there were the beats, and then the beatniks - the derisive name the beat generation gave to the leather-jacketed me-toos who followed them.

Every year, the Academy was swamped with thousands of applications for the three hundred places available for Squabs - the derisive name applied to first-year cadets.

Only someone of Weenie's diminutive size would have tolerated such a derisive name.

Hence the derisive name of 'strawshoes' was applied in legal circles to anybody who gave witness for money.

The resulting Amerasian children, of whom there were estimated to be about 50,000, were ostracized and given the derisive name bui doi ("dirt of life").