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The phrase "a derogatory term for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining that a specific word or phrase is considered offensive or disrespectful towards a particular group or individual.
Example: "The word 'idiot' is often seen as a derogatory term for someone perceived as lacking intelligence."
Alternatives: "an insulting term for" or "a pejorative term for".
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"Slope" is a derogatory term for Asian people.
But bangers is not a derogatory term for breasts.
"Never a Shiptar," a derogatory term for Albanians.
Trying to mask offensive lyrics, the station bleeped out a derogatory term for blacks but left in a derogatory term for gays.
The refugees generally referred to the Rohingya as Bengalis, or used a derogatory term for blacks.
Soldiers have even coined a derogatory term for those who never get off the base: "fobbits".
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K. called his foreman, Michael, a good gondie a derogatory term for blacks.
People looked at her different and called her... [a derogatory term for an immigrant] for not speaking English.
"It is not us trying to separate the country, it is the banderas [a derogatory term for Western Ukrainains]" says one man angrily.
"They [Myanmar military] looked down on us, ignored us and kept silence by saying that our kalars [a derogatory term for Muslims] do not have anything.
"Daesh [a derogatory term for ISIS] tried to impose their ideology on the Kafranbel people.
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