Words similar to derogatory

Example sentences for: derogatory

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

The cause for derogatory stereotyping of Mexicans, and other Latin Americans, is difficult to understand, and the negative stereotype seems to have no historical basis, until one understands the history of the Black Legend.
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.
II By extension: A balagan-like show, i.e. a crude, artistically tasteless, disordered, frivolous one (derogatory).
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.
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.