How to Use derogatory in a Sentence

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• This story contains racist and derogatory language, and may not be suitable for all audiences.
  — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
• The new set of guidelines lay special emphasis on taking action against any content that is derogatory for women.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• The banner outside the restaurant was one of a thousand derogatory ways Asian women are harassed or demeaned.
  — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2021
• Another time, a woman shoved her off a subway train onto the platform and called her a derogatory term for Chinese people.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• Watching video of the incident, what's most striking is Leonard seeming to pause beforehand to come up with something derogatory to say.
  — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
• The neighbor denied saying anything derogatory toward the woman.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2021
• Comments were racist, derogatory, and encouraged the use of violence against Lucerne residents.
  — Megan Evershed, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2021
• In her memo to the board, Moreau pointed out the county’s process for naming streets does not specifically prohibit or limit derogatory or offensive names.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• The back and forth between the employee and the patron escalated after the suspect allegedly called the employee a derogatory name, police said.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2024
• Trestan said reports of anti-Semitic or otherwise derogatory language are not uncommon in local and professional sports.
  — Penny Schwartz, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• One of the GoFundMe links included derogatory messages about police, and a coworker complained.
  — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 8 Mar. 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
• 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
• This derogatory term continued to be thrown at Black women during the Jim Crow era and after.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024