Derogatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  derogatory \de*rog"a*to*ry\, a.
     Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing a low
     opinion; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; --
     with from, to, or unto.
  
     Syn: belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory,


          derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting,
          pejorative, denigratory.
          [1913 Webster]
  
                Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of
                subsequent Parliaments bind not.    --Blackstone.
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                His language was severely censured by some of his
                brother peers as derogatory to their other.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     {Derogatory clause in a testament} (Law), a sentence of
        secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which
        he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition
        that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless
        this clause is inserted word for word; -- a precaution to
        guard against later wills extorted by violence, or
        obtained by suggestion.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  derogatory
       adj : expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments";
             "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: {derogative},
              {disparaging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "derogatory":
     abasing, abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, calumniatory,
     calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious,
     debasing, defamatory, deflating, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory,
     depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
     derogative, despiteful, detracting, detractory, diminishing,
     disadvantageous, discreditable, disdainful, dishonorable,
     disparaging, disreputable, humiliating, ignoble, ignominious,
     infamous, inglorious, insulting, libelous, lowering, malevolent,
     malicious, maligning, minimizing, mitigating, notorious, offensive,
     pejorative, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, seamy,
     shady, slanderous, slighting, sordid, spiteful, uncomplimentary,
     unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, vilifying