derogatory
tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
Origin of derogatory
1Other words for derogatory
Other words from derogatory
- de·rog·a·to·ri·ly, adverb
- de·rog·a·to·ri·ness, noun
- non·de·rog·a·to·ri·ly, adverb
- non·de·rog·a·to·ri·ly·ness, noun
- non·de·rog·a·to·ry, adjective
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How to use derogatory in a sentence
While the term professional patient is sometimes used in a derogatory way, it accurately describes many people who regularly interact with the health care system.
To Fix America's Broken Health Care System, We Must Rethink Who Counts as an Expert | s.e. smith | June 10, 2021 | TimeMontgomery Steppe’s letter makes no derogatory references to Lincoln students.
An Annotated History of the Community Square-Off Over Lincoln High | Will Huntsberry and Sara Libby | June 7, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe team used these interviews to create a taxonomy of 18 different types of hate speech, focusing on English and text-based hate speech only, including derogatory speech, slurs, and threatening language.
After Greene attempted to confront Ocasio-Cortez in the Capitol on Wednesday, CNN unearthed video from 2019 in which Greene, then a private citizen, is shown making derogatory comments about Ocasio-Cortez from outside her Capitol Hill office.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s years-long campaign to disparage and attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Philip Bump | May 14, 2021 | Washington PostThe company’s latest big push is to address body shaming by imposing a ban on “unsolicited and derogatory comments made about someone’s appearance, body shape, size or health.”
How Whitney Wolfe Herd Turned a Vision of a Better Internet Into a Billion-Dollar Brand | Charlotte Alter/Austin | March 19, 2021 | Time
Reid had written poems about three other professors, all of them critical and derogatory.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut ernai is an old term, not exactly derogatory but certainly lacking in regard, so Mei prefers to call herself a “girlfriend.”
China’s Concubine Culture Lives On in Mistress Villages | Brendon Hong | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs for the piece itself, at the time, I thought it portrayed the band as real and it did so not in any sort of derogatory way.
Stacks: Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band | Grover Lewis | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf a man gave that testimony, you would never see those kind of derogatory remarks.
After 11 years of service, his visa was just denied due to “derogatory information.”
We Abandoned Them: Kirk Johnson’s Fight to Save Iraqis | John Kael Weston | September 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA mushir (marshal) would find it derogatory to his dignity to smoke out of a stem less than two yards in length.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.It seemed to him particularly derogatory to have to appear before this Areopagus in person.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyBut, then, Nold is himself a great admirer of Most; he would not say anything derogatory, unless fully convinced that it is true.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanIn his haste he had said derogatory things about Robin in his heart, which was unreasonable.
Mary Gray | Katharine TynanHe said, however, that it was nothing that it would be in any way derogatory to her honor to grant him.
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British Dictionary definitions for derogatory
/ (dɪˈrɒɡətərɪ, -trɪ) /
tending or intended to detract, disparage, or belittle; intentionally offensive
Derived forms of derogatory
- derogatorily, adverb
- derogatoriness, noun
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