Thesaurus / derogatory
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While the term professional patient is sometimes used in a derogatory way, it accurately describes many people who regularly interact with the health care system.
TO FIX AMERICA'S BROKEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, WE MUST RETHINK WHO COUNTS AS AN EXPERTS.E. SMITHJUNE 10, 2021TIMEMontgomery Steppe’s letter makes no derogatory references to Lincoln students.
AN ANNOTATED HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY SQUARE-OFF OVER LINCOLN HIGHWILL HUNTSBERRY AND SARA LIBBYJUNE 7, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThe 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.
AI STILL SUCKS AT MODERATING HATE SPEECHKAREN HAOJUNE 4, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWAfter 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.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE’S YEARS-LONG CAMPAIGN TO DISPARAGE AND ATTACK ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPHILIP BUMPMAY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe 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.”
HOW WHITNEY WOLFE HERD TURNED A VISION OF A BETTER INTERNET INTO A BILLION-DOLLAR BRANDCHARLOTTE ALTER/AUSTINMARCH 19, 2021TIMEHis initial script included a term in reference to people with dwarfism that is seen as derogatory.
THE ONE SIMPLE TELL THAT REVEALS FOX NEWS’S SEUSS OBSESSION FOR WHAT IT ISPHILIP BUMPMARCH 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTPantifa is a derogatory term for antifa, a far-left anti-fascist movement whose adherents sometimes engage in violent clashes with right-wing extremists.
FBI REPORT WARNED OF ‘WAR’ AT CAPITOL, CONTRADICTING CLAIMS THERE WAS NO INDICATION OF LOOMING VIOLENCEDEVLIN BARRETT, MATT ZAPOTOSKYJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe way that when they refused, they were yelled at, called derogatory names and left with unpaid bills.
‘TAKE OFF YOUR MASK’: BOORISH CUSTOMERS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO MAKE SEXUAL HARASSMENT EVEN MORE OF A HAZARDMONICA HESSEDECEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POSTA recent study showed that as much as 9% of public Facebook posts related to Jewish Americans contained derogatory language.
IT’S 2020 AND ANTI-SEMITISM IS AN ELECTORAL TACTIC AGAINTATE RYAN-MOSLEYNOVEMBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWA mushir (marshal) would find it derogatory to his dignity to smoke out of a stem less than two yards in length.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.WORDS RELATED TO DEROGATORY
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
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