How to Use derogatory in a Sentence

derogatory

adjective

• How the phrase came to be so derogatory was a mystery to him.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 30 July 2019
• That is pure Trump: the derogatory nickname and the rest of it.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021
• That might sound a bit derogatory, but it’s not meant to be.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2022
• There are a bunch of shows that sound like each other, not in a derogatory way.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 20 June 2018
• Students called him derogatory names and knocked books out of his hand.
  — Time, 6 June 2023
• His posts were laden with racist slurs and derogatory remarks.
  — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• Over the years, this has resulted in a range of derogatory stereotypes and slurs.
  — Soon Yu, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• That could be because of the derogatory remarks Trump made about women in the past.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• The issue is that this nice lady made a derogatory racial comment.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
• But would a lawyer be on the side of the music that was derogatory about people who suffered in Auschwitz?
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Still, the use of some derogatory language on the platform spiked after Musk took the helm.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2022
• The derogatory comments toward the people in the hospital felt like a dagger to my heart.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2020
• And out of uniform, he was called a derogatory term by a white person while trying to park his car.
  — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Some in the group made derogatory comments to others in the group, the sheriff’s office said in a release.
  — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2019
• Chaney figures the declaration that the term is derogatory will carry a lot of weight.
  — Liz Ruskin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2021
• The man continued to use derogatory language and fought with those trying to restrain him.
  — cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
• There was nothing derogatory found and that's why it's moved forward.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• And that’s what got talked about and prostituted by the media, in the most derogatory manner.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
• Some creators are also pointing out that the name ignores the trend’s roots and casts its wearers in a derogatory way.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 12 June 2022
• There are also uses of a derogatory racial term in documents and quotes cited in the story.
  — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2019
• The episode then cut to a flashback scene, showing Mary making the derogatory comments.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 2 Jan. 2022
• The derogatory information has raised the question of what to do with them, leaving them in limbo.
  — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2021
• Jones said, referring to a derogatory term used against Black men.
  — Chao Xiong, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
• One day, a female staff member made a derogatory comment about the quality of his work.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• But why is the term so often seen as derogatory — not to mention white-adjacent?
  — Jessica Cruel, Allure, 22 Aug. 2023
• Some use that and derogatory words for women, Lake and Morgan said.
  — Chris Sikich, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Oct. 2020
• Scab is a derogatory term for someone who leaves or declines to join a labor union, freeing them to work during a strike.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• Trump over the derogatory comments about service members.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2020
• Technical fouls will also be doled out for any use of derogatory language.
  — Andy Kostka, USA TODAY, 5 June 2019
• In fact, no other dog received any such derogatory comments at all.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024