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It is unacceptable to use derogatory terms to reference a race or ethnicity.derogatory = disrespectful
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She made some derogatory comments and left the meeting.derogatory = critical
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The candidate said she did not intend the comments in a derogatory manner.derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism
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Computer users of that era had given the TRS-80 the derogatory nickname of "Trash 80." (source)
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When Mom mentioned Jackson Pollock once, Lucy Jo said that she had Polish blood and therefore did not appreciate Mom using derogatory names for Polish people. (source)derogatory = disrespectful
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The old man was reassured. He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. (source)derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism
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Bar-Ã rabo is derogatory wordplay.† (source)derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism
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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."† (source)
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He neither derogated from his own dignity, nor gave offence to others; he vouchsafed a passing smile at the seminary Latin, and stood up for his bishop; drank two small glasses of wine, but refused a third; accepted a cigar from Arkady, but did not proceed to smoke it, saying he would take it home with him.† (source)
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When one derogates there are no degrees.† (source)
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Very abstract, abstruse, or subtle: often used derogatorily of reasoning.† (source)
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Then they pray that God may give them an easy passage at last to Himself, not presuming to set limits to Him, how early or late it should be; but, if it may be wished for without derogating from His supreme authority, they desire to be quickly delivered, and to be taken to Himself, though by the most terrible kind of death, rather than to be detained long from seeing Him by the most prosperous course of life.† (source)
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I must be laugh'd at If, or for nothing or a little, I Should say myself offended, and with you Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at that I should Once name you derogately, when to sound your name It not concern'd me.† (source)
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We do not call American Literature 'Am Lit,' I see no reason to shrivel this country's most interesting literature to a derogatory abbreviation.† (source)
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Not any, however, 'Gainst the friend-lord muttered, mocking-words uttered {But no word is uttered to derogate from the old king} Of Hrothgar the gracious (a good king he).† (source)
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I hope, in what has been said of Virgil, with regard to any of these heads, I have no way derogated from his character.† (source)
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