Example sentences for: derogatory

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

  • 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.


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