denigratory

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for denigratory
Adjective
  • The positive media coverage of Thomas was the insulting cherry on top of the situation for Estabrook.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The crude and insulting attacks Democratic lawmakers have leveled at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk threaten to drive away voters who want the party to work with the new president to cut wasteful spending.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The term Mace used is considered derogatory, defamatory and dehumanizing for transgender people according to GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
  • And yet, Davis’s slight still hits different (derogatory).
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have antivirus software installed on all your devices.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Maloof is suing the city of Palm Bay, the Palm Bay Police Department and the officer on claims including malicious prosecution and false arrest.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In conservative circles, the pejorative label stuck.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • These asylum seekers came to be known as Vietnamese boat people, a name that has come to be regarded as pejorative — the sort of dehumanizing language often used in indexing immigrants.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
Adjective
  • Though the pollen gunk will pass, he's concerned by a contingent of Twitter trolls who've shared uncomplimentary reviews of his recent North American tour.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Neither party admitted to liability and each agreed to refrain from making disparaging, negative or uncomplimentary statements about the other, the document said.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2022
Adjective
  • The principal accused him of disrupting his Middleborough Middle School and of demeaning LGBTQ students.
    Lauren Green, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Her mother, a day laborer who had to leave school at age 10 to work, cleaned houses under the demeaning conditions of the Jim Crow era: Butler sometimes accompanied her mom on the job, where they were required to enter homes through back doors.
    Stephen Kearse, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This subsided with unusual speed, however, as cricket fans took instead to sharing the self-deprecatory jokes coming over the border.
    The Economist, The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Philipps has acquired her 1-million-and-growing Instagram followers through her self-deprecatory humor, raw honesty and vulnerability.
    Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
Adjective
  • The first was in a degrading context: Brown University’s annual Spring Weekend, in 2013.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • In the case of the white-telephone-cord purse, Curran sniffed out the presence of plasticizers that typically emerge from degrading PVC—a useful alarm bell for staff who may want to store the purse in a sealed container.
    Sarah Everts, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2016
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“Denigratory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denigratory. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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