All 3 Uses of
derogatory
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- He's going up the keyboard with a few fingers in some very derogatory triplet-routine, he gets higher and higher, and then he looks over the end of the piano, as if over a cliff.†
Story 1.16 *derogatory = expressing disrespect or criticism
- Eugene felt his face growing pointed with derogatory, yet pitying, truly pitying sounds.†
Story 3.31
- With professional motions, which looked so much like showing off, and yet were so derogatory, she was shaking it down.†
Story 4.38