Sentence examples for derogatory meaning from inspiring English sources

"I Am Love" is operatic — another word that has taken on derogatory meaning in contemporary criticism — with curlicue opening credits, a lush score (by the composer John Adams) and a strange, gothic coda.

Originally a noun, this was formed from the Greek demos, "people," and agogos, "leading"; it meant "leader of the mob" and now has the derogatory meaning of "a politician who appeals to people's emotions".

But there evidently are a few exceptions where names can be moderately detrimental, with the common theme being the name has a powerful derogatory meaning that, for some reason, does not fully fade away when physical appearance, personality, and behavior are considered.

Until François Ozon's latest film, I wasn't aware of the word's derogatory meaning, to describe a woman with no real power or purpose, but after this film's success, I suspect the vernacular will have to alter to accommodate the irony of Catherine Deneuve's fine comic performance in the titular role.

If you instantly inferred a derogatory meaning, then the fault is with your own racist brain, in which case you owe Clive an erudite man who always considers the etymology of every word he uses an apology.

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Last week the drash (sermon) in my synagogue was about lashon ha'ra, translated as "evil tongue" and meaning "derogatory things spoken about another".

I explained that because as well as being a robot, Bender is a derogatory word meaning homosexual.

Nonos is a French derogatory term meaning, essentially, idiots.

27 We do not intend to invoke the derogatory lay meaning of rhetoric involving artificiality or deception.

The incident also popularized the derogatory term "toe-tapper," meaning a gay man.