Sentence examples for it was derogatory from inspiring English sources
She added: "We didn't think it was derogatory in any manner.
Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale, suggested it was "derogatory and dismissive of the people".
He also complained about the television show "The Sopranos," saying that it was derogatory to Italian-Americans and to New Yorkers, a point he stuck by even after the moderator noted that the show was set in New Jersey, not New York.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Tam's request, saying it was derogatory to Asians and therefore violated the Lanham Act, which doesn't allow trademarks that "may disparage... persons, living or dead".
She was named by Winston Churchill, with the intention to imply that it could approach the enemy silently as if on tiptoe, although the Royal Navy naming committee was against the name, stating that "it was derogatory to one of His Majesty's ships", but the Prime Minister had his way.
I grew up in a small town where the only thing that ever made my biracial identity apparent was the difference in food (and language) amongst family holiday get-togethers, and that one time in high school a kid at my own lunch table called me a "spic" in jest (I didn't even know what it meant or that it was derogatory until I saw the shame on his face when he mistook my confusion for offense).
It is derogatory and negative".
And while "spread" is often a compliment when it comes to buffets and estates, when applied to firewood it's derogatory.
"It's derogatory, it's meant to be offensive, though I don't really understand why I am supposed to be insulted," said Julie Schreck, a corporate security manager from Manhattan.
That phrase had angered gay rights advocates who believe it is derogatory; the judge said he took the language from the plea bargains the prosecution offered Mr. Ravi before he went to trial.
"I'm not going to get into labels like WAG, because it's derogatory, and maybe I'm part of that culture, because I came from a working-class background in Yorkshire and now I eat at the Wolseley," Bailey told an interviewer, in 2007.
