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Definition
expressing disrespect or criticism- It is unacceptable to use derogatory terms to reference a race or ethnicity.
derogatory = disrespectful
- She made a number of derogatory comments and left the meeting.
- The candidate said she did not intend the comments in a derogatory manner.
- He had drawn a derogatory statement from George.John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men
- Nor did she say a single derogatory word concerning any portion of mankind.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne's House of Dreams
- To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
- The establishment boasted four: we do not record the circumstance as at all derogatory to Mrs.Dickens, Charles -- The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
- Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appellation.Dickens, Charles -- Bleak House
- sees anything derogatory to her in attempting to break off the marriage?Collins, Wilkie -- The New Magdalen
- Besides, it seemed to him that the society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood.Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
- Eugene felt his face growing pointed with derogatory, yet pitying, truly pitying sounds.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- Mr. Holabird's statement is not only crass and derogatory, it is totally without merit and slanders my clients.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- He must have thought it derogatory to bring bread-and-butter alone, nor was it Manderley routine.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- Bar-Ã rabo is derogatory wordplay.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- When one derogates there are no degrees.Henry James -- The American
- Seated across a table from Washington, Paterson assured him that Lord Howe did not mean to "derogate from the respect or rank of General Washington."David G. McCullough -- 1776
- They're called shells, which is a slightly derogatory connotation on Luna, so .... well, bioelectrically challenged doesn't sound much better, does it?"Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Go on—without derogatory comments about people of my profession, please.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- But that didn't fit because DeWeese wasn't a derogatory kind of person at all.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
derogatory = critical
derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism
derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism