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derogatory
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derogatory adjective belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, censorious, condemnatory, contumelious, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, detracting, detractory, disapprobatory, disapproving, discrediting, disdainful, dishonoring, disparaging, faultfinding, injurious, lessening, libelous, objurgatory, slanderous, slighting, uncomplimentary, unflattering
Associated concepts: derogatory statements
Foreign phrases: Quae legi communi derogant stricte innerpretantur.Those things which derogate from the common law are strictly interpreted. Quae legi communi derooant non sunt trahenda in exemplum. Those things which derogate from the common law are not to be drawn into precedent.
See also: bad, calumnious, contemptuous, critical, cynical, disgraceful, libelous, offensive, pejorative, unfavorable
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Opponents of Romanian president Traian Basescu sometimes derogatorily call him the sailor-president, an allusion to his past as a ship captain in the merchant fleet and his occasionally coarse language.
Perfect storm: with his re-election campaign teetering on the edge, ... by Bivol, Alex / The Sofia Echo (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Southerners in various towns have criticized some cultural practices adopted by young people, often refugees returning from abroad, derogatorily labeled as "negros" or "niggers.
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To date, many of these countries, which are often derogatorily called the "flags of convenience," have failed to take appropriate enforcement action against the operators of vessels that dump oily wastes in violation of MARPOL, (4) an international treaty designed to protect the world's oceans from intentional oil pollution from vessels.
United States v. Abrogar: did the Third Circuit miss the boat? by Kehoe, David P. / Environmental Law
 
 
 
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