Words similar to derogatory
Example sentences for: derogatory
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In other words (to keep on explaining this simple but hard-to-articulate point), in order for an expression to be dysphemistic it must be the intention of the user to employ it to an insulting, derogatory, or otherwise offensive purpose.
Such uncertainties stirred up ever-ready fashion hatred and made the hemline into a derogatory synonym for fashionable change.
For many, slang and its treatment—however clinical—is taboo, for it is loaded language, not so much with the expected four-letter words (of which there are only a handful) but with racial, religious, and ethnic slurs, which are both derogatory and offensive and are shunned like the plague by liberals.
breadfruit-swopper (derogatory and offensive) a person so poor that he or she has nothing to offer in exchange for any item but a home-grown breadfruit (which nearly everybody already has).
Which is why I was so impressed by Three Kings . It spins the race issue from all angles--all the stuff about what derogatory term is proper for an Arab, co-signed by Ice Cube, until he glimpses the Rodney King beating on a TV inside the bunker.