"Class envy" is often derogated as a kind of moral lapse.
We citizens, often derogated as "users" or "consumers", have much to win in a global communication space.
An unwanted gift from a predecessor, parent or older sibling is derogated as a hand-me-down; a happier, lasting bequest is called a legacy with legs.
(Everybody denies it, but many civil servants, derogated as bureaucrats by the elite foreign service corps, still refer to the diplomats as cookie pushers).
Arbiters of good usage resigned to being called "word police" have been denounced as wordinistas, just as nosy reporters have been derogated as scandalistas.
This is not the space-based shield derogated as "Star Wars" to block an all-out Russian attack, but a necessary precaution against a terrorist's nuclear blackmail or any accidental launches.
The environmental law consultancy, ClientEarth, was concerned that the new proposal effectively derogated responsibility for urgent climate change actions agreed at COP21 to the business sector.
(The Viscountess Snowden, after a visit to Russia soon after World War I, wrote, "We were behind the 'iron curtain' at last!") In the United States, the undemonstrative first lady Rosalynn Carter was derogated (unfairly, in retrospect) as "the steel magnolia".
However, it may be deduced that at least the minimum core of subsistence rights may not be derogated from, even during situations of public emergency threatening the life of the nation.
More than any major candidate in recent times, Mr. Santorum has derogated the federal government on religious grounds.
