Sample sentences for DEROGATORY

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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.

derogatory = critical

The candidate said she did not intend the comments in a derogatory manner.

derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George.
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men

derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism

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
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
Dry up in her the organs of increase; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her!
William Shakespeare -- King Lear

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