Derogatory is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEROGATORY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• detracting, injurious
• showing a critical or disrespectful attitude
• Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto.
• expressive of low opinion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• detracting from the character or standing of something —often used with to, towards, or of

Words related to DEROGATORY

derogatorily17 derogatoriness16

How to use DEROGATORY in a sentence

• They ran after him, and one can scarcely blame him if he acquired a derogatory opinion of them.
• What I say is that it is derogatory to national dignity to think of permanence of British connection at any cost.
• Last, but not least, was the law, that made it sacrilege to speak in terms derogatory to the emperor.
• I think we agree, gentlemen, that to acknowledge the necessity of any such action would be highly derogatory.
• The contrary presumption would involve an implication derogatory to the integrity and honor of the representatives of the people.
• The Commons refused to grant supplies, unless the king granted rights and privileges which he deemed alike derogatory and dangerous.
• He characterized its resolves as contemptuous and insolent, and derogatory to the authority of Parliament.
• It is too little inducive to physical ease or perhaps too derogatory to our dignity to kneel before the Lord our Maker.
• Of course, in the mind of a lover of the infinite, this fact is not derogatory to God, but derogatory to existence.
• He is too honest and impartial to countenance propositions of peace derogatory to the freedom of the seas.
• And, if any be imputed to him derogatory of our regard to the treaty with France, I think his opinion has been misunderstood.
• This noble letter, Bacon afterwards, in pleading against Essex, called bold and presumptuous, and derogatory to her majesty.
• The whole tenor of the treaty was denounced by him as unsound and impolitic, and as derogatory to the honour of England.
• Without mentioning Gloucester by name, he warned the citizens against executing orders derogatory to himself.
• The better element of his constituents at length became disgusted, as reports derogatory to their member from time to time reached them.
• Markham meant nothing derogatory to her daughter-in-law, though Ethelyn did strike her as very young, in her pretty hat with her heavy hair low in her neck.
• It is equally derogatory, it is the same in principle, thus to shut the door to one party, and open the door to the other.
• But it is derogatory to the character and dignity of neither.
• He had something to say about everything, and what he had to say was usually of a derogatory character.
• Besides, I am ashamed of the whole derogatory affair.
• An appetite for personalities developed, and these derogatory remarks ordinarily led to personal encounters.
• But the King of France would not grant this, saying that it would be greatly derogatory to his honor if any one but himself should punish his malefactors.
• I will not affirm, that there may not have lately appeared in the House of Lords, a disposition to some attempts derogatory to the legal rights of the subject.
• It is full of incident and humour and not at all derogatory to the prestige of the church.
• But if Wilford had told him anything derogatory of the farmhouse or its inmates, it did not appear in Mr.
• He is ardent and not derogatory and he is talking and not swaying as he is standing and he is shortening in not betraying that he has not been changing.
• We say of the League of Nations that it is ideal, and we use the term in a derogatory sense.
• They had made up their minds about us, that we were persons of gentle blood, to whom all work must be derogatory.

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