He admitted his emails were "extremely sarcastic" and "derisory" but said he stood by them.
The Cadbury board responded to the latest move by again calling the offer "derisory".
The unions have described the latest offer by the company as derisory and their position as intransigent.
"What we're being offered for our houses is derisory, " one of the organisers of the No campaign told us.
The Cadbury board, lead by chairman Roger Carr, has called the offer "derisory", saying that it "substantially undervalues Cadbury".
Mr McCausland said the BBC had a well-funded Irish language unit but its treatment of Ulster-Scots had been derisory.
NATO's performance in Afghanistan which many consider to be the alliance's own benchmark was derisory.
He said: ""The offer is certainly not derisory and we won't be budging.
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Chinese illegals here, actually working for derisory pay in sweated conditions, are photographed looking happy and wealthy, in a borrowed suit.
The Board of London Stock Exchange rejects outright this derisory proposal which fundamentally undervalues the Company and lacks any strategic or commercial credibility.
"Despite this tinkering, the Kraft offer remains unchanged and derisory with less than half the consideration in cash, " it said in a statement.
The Fire Brigade's Unon (FBU) has rejected the report as trotting out a "tired, old agenda" and of being part of a "derisory and insulting" offer.
And upfront compensation to local farmers for use of their land is derisory: often just a few months of income for agreeing to a 100-year lease.
And, if we can keep the traditional derisory offers from Rangers and Celtic at bay, I'm confident these players will push Motherwell towards a comfortable top-six finish.
Despite recent turbulence in the markets, returns in Chile over the 17-year life of the scheme have greatly exceeded the derisory returns implicit in the earlier pay-as-you-go system.
According to data released in November 2012, Apple had 71.4% of the Chinese tablet market, with Lenovo at a lowly 10% and Samsung at a derisory 3%.
It is a bad reason because the good folks that are snapping up the bonds at their current derisory yield are not being rewarded for the risks they are taking.
Mentioning the gold standard that prevailed all over the world during the Industrial Revolution brings about derisory comments, some of them suggesting that the value of gold was based on fetishism.
If you thought the Board of the London Stock Exchange was a little scornful when it jilted Macquarie Bank for the first time back in December--" a derisory proposal which fundamentally undervalues the company and lacks any strategic or commercial credibility"--its latest blackball is downright disdainful.
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