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derogate

[der-uh-gayt, der-uh-git, -gayt] / ˈdɛr əˌgeɪt, ˈdɛr ə gɪt, -ˌgeɪt /


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One option to deal with the shortfall would be to allow Kilroot to temporarily derogate from its environmental permits though the legality and cost of that is unclear.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2022

Producers and Lee’s estate signed a contract agreeing that “the play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the novel nor alter its characters,” according to The New York Times.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018

The contract the parties signed states that “the Play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the Novel nor alter its characters.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018

But to say they are artificial does not derogate from their genius.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

To weigh justly these elements of their renown, is not invidiously to derogate from it, but only to vindicate the truth of history.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

McConnell notes that early executive-legislative skirmishes over information were couched in language about congressional “requests” for information that implicitly acknowledged presidential authority, not subpoenas that derogated it.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021

Social psychologists, including my New York University colleague Madeline Heilman, have shown that successful women in traditionally masculine roles are often derogated and disliked.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020

The pressures of adapting the book also were complicated after a lawyer for Lee’s estate filed a lawsuit alleging that Sorkin’s interpretation derogated the “spirit of the novel.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2018

The commission’s in-depth investigation opened in February 2015 showed that the scheme derogated from normal practice under Belgian company tax rules and the so-called ‘arm’s length principle’.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016

These principles obviously derogated from the glory of Jehovah.

From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen

“That’s not a frivolous argument. But I’m not sure that’s true. I think if you want to restore the rule of law and equal justice, you don’t do it by further derogating from justice.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

I don’t want to seem like I’m derogating these other films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

Humans respond to feelings of threat by derogating outgroups.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2018

But I think in general terms this is a very derogating thing.

From Time ● Jun. 23, 2013

Without derogating from the respect I entertain for the opinion of that celebrated navigator, I may be permitted to consider this important object in a far more general point of view.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross


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