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derogatory
/dɪˈɹɑɡəˌtɔɹi/
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What does derogatory mean?
adjective
- Disparaging.
- Tending to derogate
- Reducing the power or value of (a governmental body, etc); detracting from.
More meanings (3)
adjective
- Lessening the worth of (a person, etc); expressing derogation; insulting.
- Being or pertaining to a derogatory clause.
noun
- A tradeline on a credit report that indicates negative credit history.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈɹɑɡəˌtɔɹi/
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I thought to myself disgustedly, and then remembered how little like “women,” in our derogatory sense, they were.
Besides, it seemed to him that the society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood.
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Report now arrived that Jane Digby was dead; and paragraphs derogatory to her character appeared in the press.
To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.
These lower classes can in any case not avoid labour, and the imputation of labour is therefore not greatly derogatory to them, at least not within their class.