How to Use derogatory in a Sentence

derogatory

adjective

• The main film under review, Moffie, takes its title from a derogatory term for a gay man used in South Africa.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2021
• Kaysville police said a homeowner reported a derogatory note was left behind.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2021
• This included the reclamation of the term Chicano, which, until then, had been a derogatory term.
  — Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2021
• The slur is considered offensive and derogatory to and against Native people.
  — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 18 July 2024
• Growing up, students called me every typical derogatory Asian name and stereotype.
  — NBC news, 30 Apr. 2021
• For much of the 20th century, depictions of Black people in comic books have been derogatory and racist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
• Racist and derogatory statements will never be tolerated.
  — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 8 May 2021
• McCammond’s old tweets included derogatory stereotypes about Asians and slurs for gay people.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
• The woman next made a derogatory statement to the officer and began walking across the business’s parking lot while shouting profanities at him.
  — cleveland, 4 June 2021
• This type of comment feels derogatory and demeaning to workers, and certainly doesn’t help build bridges between the CEO and her team.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 9 May 2021
• There is vigorous debate over whether the chant is offensive since the offending word is said to have many meanings in Spanish, one of which is a derogatory slur used to demean gay men.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• The speech encapsulated Greene's embrace of Trump's smash mouth politics and use of derogatory nicknames.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 28 May 2021
• That is pure Trump: the derogatory nickname and the rest of it.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021
• How the phrase came to be so derogatory was a mystery to him.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 30 July 2019
• That might sound a bit derogatory, but it’s not meant to be.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2022
• There are a bunch of shows that sound like each other, not in a derogatory way.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 20 June 2018
• Still, the use of some derogatory language on the platform spiked after Musk took the helm.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2022
• That could be because of the derogatory remarks Trump made about women in the past.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• But would a lawyer be on the side of the music that was derogatory about people who suffered in Auschwitz?
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Students called him derogatory names and knocked books out of his hand.
  — Time, 6 June 2023
• Over the years, this has resulted in a range of derogatory stereotypes and slurs.
  — Soon Yu, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• That man, who is 25 years old, said people in the group yelled derogatory remarks.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• Some in the group made derogatory comments to others in the group, the sheriff’s office said in a release.
  — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2019
• His posts were laden with racist slurs and derogatory remarks.
  — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• And out of uniform, he was called a derogatory term by a white person while trying to park his car.
  — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Some use that and derogatory words for women, Lake and Morgan said.
  — Chris Sikich, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Oct. 2020
• The next day, on Oct. 3, Trump published to his social media site a derogatory post about a clerk who works for Arthur Engoron, the judge in the case.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023
• The episode then cut to a flashback scene, showing Mary making the derogatory comments.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 2 Jan. 2022
• And that’s what got talked about and prostituted by the media, in the most derogatory manner.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
• Jazmin then listed some of the derogatory names her younger sister has been called online since the blowback started.
  — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024