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derogate

to curtail the application of a law or regulation or a grant.
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There are about twenty references to Jews in the novel; only one is authorial, and that lone example is modestly derogative: the Jews, Trollope observes, are a race who could bear unjust treatment without resentment, but could be unscrupulous in carrying out a purpose (I, 204).
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Even then, the orator Prime Minister did not have the courage to publicly condemn the derogative and highly provocative statements of the Hindutva protagonists.
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President has sharpened his derogative remarks against those opposed to the agreement during his address to security officers on Tuesday that those who are unhappy with the agreement 'are people who were with the Jalaba/Diaspora, and never had time to fight with him in the bush'.
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What it means to be a good friend should not be pushed down our throats with derogative terms.
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Don't we respect headmasters...what is wrong...how is it derogative?"
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