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adj.offensive, uncomplimentary

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Montgomery Steppe’s letter makes no derogatory references to Lincoln students.

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The team used these interviews to create a taxonomy of 18 different types of hate speech, focusing on English and text-based hate speech only, including derogatory speech, slurs, and threatening language.

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After Greene attempted to confront Ocasio-Cortez in the Capitol on Wednesday, CNN unearthed video from 2019 in which Greene, then a private citizen, is shown making derogatory comments about Ocasio-Cortez from outside her Capitol Hill office.

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The company’s latest big push is to address body shaming by imposing a ban on “unsolicited and derogatory comments made about someone’s appearance, body shape, size or health.”

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His initial script included a term in reference to people with dwarfism that is seen as derogatory.

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Pantifa is a derogatory term for antifa, a far-left anti-fascist movement whose adherents sometimes engage in violent clashes with right-wing extremists.

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The way that when they refused, they were yelled at, called derogatory names and left with unpaid bills.

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A recent study showed that as much as 9% of public Facebook posts related to Jewish Americans contained derogatory language.

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A mushir (marshal) would find it derogatory to his dignity to smoke out of a stem less than two yards in length.

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