derogation
Example Sentences
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Derogation, which would be needed, amounts to a temporary and partial withdrawal from the convention.
From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2017
A 2011 research paper in the journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science sums it up in the title: Do Gooder Derogation: Disparaging Morally Motivated Minorities to Defuse Anticipated Reproach.
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017
He didn't describe it further, contrary to his common practice, and I only knew later, by Mrs. Limbert, that he had begun Derogation and that he was completely full of his subject.
From Embarrassments by James, Henry
Derogation of these restrictions would have meant loss and injury to some peninsular subjects that had grown rich and powerful through them.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
Derogation is a splendid fragment; it evidently would have been one of his high successes.
From Embarrassments by James, Henry
