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"Derogatory" in a Sentence (14 examples)
You don't need to say it in such derogatory terms.
She made some derogatory remarks about her colleagues.
The drunken men made derogatory remarks toward the women in the club.
Her derogatory remarks towards her boss caused her to lose her job.
Tom made some derogatory remarks.
Tom said nothing derogatory.
On tennis forums, those who blindly support their favourite player while looking down on his or her opponents are commonly given the derogatory nickname "tards". Of course, a lot of times these same people use the word to refer to anyone supporting the players they don't like.
Harelip is an older term, now seen as derogatory, for the condition known as cleft lip.
Sami knows this is a derogatory term.
Sami was using the N-word in a derogatory sense.
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It was perfectly plain, that fast and far as scandal flies, Lady Anne's words, when derogatory to the Count, and that beloved wife, for whose sake they would have been most resented, had never reached their retreat in Devonshire, much less followed them to distant Italy.
The Tories […] knew that […] the House which should be the first to come to a resolution would have a great advantage over the other. […] The Commons had determined that, on Monday the twenty-eighth of January, they would take into consideration the state of the nation. The Tory Lords therefore proposed, on Friday the twenty-fifth, to enter instantly on the great business […]. But […] Devonshire moved that Tuesday the twenty-ninth should be the day. “By that time,” he said with more truth than discretion, “we may have some lights from below which may be useful for our guidance.” His motion was carried; but his language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their order.
Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.
Billie Jean King said Friday that the Australian Open’s Margaret Court Arena should have its name changed because of Court’s derogatory comments about gay and transgender people.
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