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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a derogative manner; derogatorily.

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Examples

  • Teabaggers fits a similar bill in that it can be used both descriptively through their own words and derogatively.

    Professor Radical Goes To Washington To Preview The Apocalypse Tenured Radical 2009

  • I think the term you're looking for is "moonbat", often used derogatively to refer to progressives and "the Left", particularly by wingnuts and sometimes by DLC apologists.

    Clinton Camp Hits Back At Obama Over Novak Flap 2009

  • Fiscal conservatism and the Gear strategy were referred to derogatively and Gear's successor, AsgiSA, was criticised by

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Deception is easily practised from false recipes intended to simulate useful findings and these are derogatively referred to by the profession as “nonsense regressions”.

    Alchemy or Science? « Climate Audit 2006

  • ‘Call this an SUV?’ the older boy commented derogatively.

    The Christmas Bride Jordan, Penny 2006

  • Some may derogatively call this method a "sucker punch" or "fighting dirty" but when you're in a scrap, there are no rules and the best street fighters I've known have understood this reality.

    How to win a fight (part I) 2006

  • I would listen to the language spoken by the Nama with its clicks, whose speakers were almost wiped out in our country, during the cruel period of our colonisation, when they were derogatively renamed Hottentots, rather than Nama and Khoi, and described as sub-human.

    Address at the Opening of the Tourism Indaba 2003

  • I would listen to the language spoken by the Nama with its clicks, whose speakers were almost wiped out in our country, during the cruel period of our colonisation, when they were derogatively renamed Hottentots, rather than Nama and Khoi, and described as sub-human.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • "Gone are the days when our entrepreneurs are derogatively referred to as bush mechanics", Ndebele said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Chief Buthelezi derogatively links the President of the ANC to Saddam Hussein.

    STATEMENT ON ALLEGATIONS MADE BY CHIEF BUTHELEZI 1992

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