as in insulting
intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value
fans made a steady stream of derogatory remarks about the players on the visiting team
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Recent Examples of derogatory
Lexington Law may be able to remove charge-offs and other derogatory marks depending on their legitimacy.
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Victor Rosario, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
While Spotify’s yearly personalized roundups used to generate viral moments thanks to videos from celebrities and features like telling listeners to go to Burlington, Vermont (derogatory), this year’s fell short, as many recipients felt the rollout was lackluster and possibly inaccurate.
—Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
The term Mace used is considered derogatory, defamatory and dehumanizing for transgender people according to GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
And yet, Davis’s slight still hits different (derogatory).
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Victor Rosario, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
While Spotify’s yearly personalized roundups used to generate viral moments thanks to videos from celebrities and features like telling listeners to go to Burlington, Vermont (derogatory), this year’s fell short, as many recipients felt the rollout was lackluster and possibly inaccurate.
—Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
The term Mace used is considered derogatory, defamatory and dehumanizing for transgender people according to GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
And yet, Davis’s slight still hits different (derogatory).
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for derogatory
Adjective
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Russian politicians and state media were thrilled to hear the U.S. president backing their insulting and obvious lies.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
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La Liga players are often shown red cards for taking protests past the level which referees deem acceptable, sometimes for words which are less insulting or disrespectful than what was said by Bellingham.—
Dermot Corrigan,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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While Bascombe is there, Adam alerts his dad to the pejorative meaning behind some emojis that Katie was sending to Jamie on Instagram, prompting the detective to start looking into whether Jamie might have been cyber-bullied.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
TIME,
13 Mar. 2025
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In conservative circles, the pejorative label stuck.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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And the system was routinely demeaning and dismissive.—
Sarah Lustbader,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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While handcuffing and removing the belts and shoelaces of deportees is standard practice in this type of operation, both Oquendo and Barrientos feel they were treated in a demeaning way by US immigration officials, especially when boarding the military flight in the early hours of Sunday.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN,
29 Jan. 2025
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The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious apps is to have antivirus software installed on all your devices.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
11 Mar. 2025
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Fraudsters are increasingly using generative AI to write convincing phishing emails, improve deepfakes, and draft new forms of malicious code — making scams harder to detect.—
Sam Sabin,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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The 2023 Economic Report Of The President published in March of 2023 was relatively disparaging of cryptoassets and DLTs.—
Lawrence Wintermeyer,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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Prior to appearing on Cunningham's show on Monday, Huggins made more disparaging remarks about Xavier.—
Emily DeLetter,
The Enquirer,
10 May 2023
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Though the pollen gunk will pass, he's concerned by a contingent of Twitter trolls who've shared uncomplimentary reviews of his recent North American tour.—
Jordan Runtagh,
PEOPLE.com,
21 Jan. 2022
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Neither party admitted to liability and each agreed to refrain from making disparaging, negative or uncomplimentary statements about the other, the document said.—
Lorraine Mirabella,
Baltimore Sun,
29 July 2022
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Incentives for employees to resign or retire could lead to a loss of experienced staff, further degrading service quality.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Drill sergeants now minimize their use of profanity, insults and degrading remarks and strive to become support figures for trainees.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2025
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This subsided with unusual speed, however, as cricket fans took instead to sharing the self-deprecatory jokes coming over the border.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
22 June 2019
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Philipps has acquired her 1-million-and-growing Instagram followers through her self-deprecatory humor, raw honesty and vulnerability.—
Sonja Haller,
USA TODAY,
11 July 2018
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“Derogatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derogatory. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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