derogatorily
- 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
Once derogatorily labelled "Spreadsheet Phil", former Chancellor Philip Hammond has gone from loyal minister to leading rebel in barely six weeks.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
If anyone else spoke to Scott so derogatorily, there would be instant conflict.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
