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- pronunciation:
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- Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
having the purpose or effect of detracting; disparaging.
She was tired and in no mood to hear any derogatory comments from her mother about her housecleaning.- synonyms:
- belittling, demeaning, deprecatory, disparaging, pejorative
- antonyms:
- complimentary
- similar words:
- defamatory, degrading, injurious, insulting, offensive
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| related words: |
abusive, captious, invective, personal |
| derivations: |
derogatorily (adv.), derogatoriness (n.) |
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