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intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value
  • used the detractive epithet "McJob" to describe what his feckless son-in-law did for work

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“Detractive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detractive. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.

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