Thesaurus / derogatory
other words for derogatory
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- defamatory
- degrading
- demeaning
- disparaging
- sarcastic
- slanderous
- unflattering
- belittling
- calumnious
- censorious
- contumelious
- critical
- damaging
- deprecatory
- depreciative
- despiteful
- disdainful
- fault-finding
- humiliating
- injurious
- malevolent
- malicious
- minimizing
- opprobrious
- reproachful
- scornful
- slighting
- spiteful
- unfavorable
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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.
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.
It seemed to him particularly derogatory to have to appear before this Areopagus in person.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
But, then, Nold is himself a great admirer of Most; he would not say anything derogatory, unless fully convinced that it is true.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
In his haste he had said derogatory things about Robin in his heart, which was unreasonable.
MARY GRAYKATHARINE TYNAN
He said, however, that it was nothing that it would be in any way derogatory to her honor to grant him.
XERXESJACOB ABBOTT
We each had too high an opinion of the other easily to suffer ourselves to do anything derogatory to our dignity.
THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, COMPLETEJEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
A This paragraph, evidently empyrical in its bearing, is derogatory to Gannal as a man of science.
HISTORY OF EMBALMINGJ. N. GANNAL
WORDS RELATED TO DEROGATORY
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- cavillous
- censorious
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.