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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In a country where the word "Black" derogatorily refers to poor city folks, el Gordo says the fiestas give him a chance to assert his Black identity in a positive way. The callously battered Shawshank convict (shockingly similar to the dead, brutally beaten, cellophane-wrapped Iraqi prisoner), derogatorily nicknamed "Fat-Ass," is left without medical treatment in the infirmary and succumbs to the effects of the captain's savage beating. While young men and women alike usually uttered the word jaombilo derogatorily, and while older people looked disapprovingly on the practice, the term also implies a kind of bemused sympathy, much in the same way there is a sense of adult tolerance and amusement when they comment that a child who is throwing a temper tantrum is "doing a bilo manga. |
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