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That said, some folk might argue that if you're happy to publicly refer to yourself as a 'Spurs fan', it's difficult to imagine how you could find any other label more demeaning, offensive or derogatory.
The accounts of the three individuals attacked in New York City reflect the typical hate-speech deployed during America's "War on Terror", which unleashed a new derogatory epithet for the apparent Muslim – "terrorist".
It referred to the attackers as Kharijites, a derogatory term for apostates.
Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans – rolled together in the most derogatory moments under the label "Paki" – were the bad guys.
2- How do females respond to derogatory terms such as "man hating feminist" when a woman identifies herself solely as a feminist fighting for women's rights?
Here's how it was supposed to run: participants entered a room where Rönkkö stood behind a table bearing an eclectic array of objects related to LaBeouf's life and career – including a bullwhip, a Transformers toy, a bottle of Jack Daniels and folded notes bearing mainly derogatory Tweets about him.
They note that they would support controversial expression but not reward it, and go further when suggesting that certain groups must be protected from what those groups take to be derogatory comments.
As tensions increased in the Middle East, and in Iraq in particular, in the 1990s and the 21st century, people subjected to xenophobic sentiments, like me, noticed a shift in the derogatory names.
For Sinéad O'Connor, the best way to dismantle male dominance was not to go after any actual men in the industry but to rev up that noted vehicle of genuine concern, the open letter, and use it to deliver a torrent of slut-shaming that was so feminist that it repeatedly used the term "prostitute" as a derogatory insult.
An analyst tasked with researching Fatima blew the whistle to the Defense Department inspector general in 2012, after saying that an intelligence oversight officer at the COIC verbally communicated that US companies had to be off-limits "due to a lack of derogatory information".
The talismanic Sweden striker, who has scored 19 league goals this term, had less impact than last season and plunged the club into a mini crisis with derogatory comments about France after a league defeat by Girondins Bordeaux in March.
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The primary grammatical function of "derogatory" is as an adjective . It modifies nouns, describing them as having a diminishing or disrespectful quality. Ludwig provides many examples where "derogatory" is used to qualify terms, comments, or language.
Expression frequency: Very common
