derogatory
adjective
tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory.
derogatorily
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a word derived from
derogatory.
Example Sentences
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Camille is an interesting narrator in part because she’s what some might derogatorily call a “passive” character, but whom I read instead as intensely observant and watchful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Mr. West also said that he asked Mr. Trump to serve as his running mate and claimed that Mr. Trump spoke derogatorily about Mr. West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
Retail stores sell rats for $10 to $15 that are derogatorily referred to as feeder rats because they are bought as food for reptiles or birds.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2019
The album title links “meatspace” – which is how Silicon Valley engineers derogatorily refer to the physical realm – with a neurodegenerative disorder called kuru, once found in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2018
Hide, hīd, n. the skin of an animal, esp. the larger animals, sometimes used derogatorily for human skin.—v.t. to flog or whip.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
