Example sentences for: derogatory

How can you use “derogatory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Australian pidgin acquired a second negative, borak , used as an alternative to baal or in a figurative sense for humbug, nonsense, or rubbish, from Wathawurung, whence came also an exclamation merrygig well done and coolie , a derogatory term for a person who partnered an Aboriginal woman.

  • An Exeter University academic once speculated, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that it might come from the Latin graeculus , translated as Greekling with a derogatory flavour.

  • "Stinking fish" was a derogatory Elizabethan reference to vaginal odor; and cod--as in cod piece--was slang for penis.

  • In Canada, the word `Inuit' (meaning `people'; the singular is `Inuk') has now almost totally replaced `Eskimo' (generally, although perhaps erroneously, believed to be derived from a derogatory Algonkian term meaning `eaters of raw meat').

  • To call a brown-skinned person a gook may be reinforced by words in his own language, Chinese Mee Gook for “beautiful country,” or Korean Myguk (My = “America” + guk = “country”), but the word is extraordinarily derogatory, reinforced by, if not derived from the common English slang gobbledegook (the brown man's language) and gook (his food).


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