derogatory
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“Blacks were ashamed of those derogatory images,” she told the New York Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
"To us, he remains the General 200," a derogatory nickname referring to a Soviet military code for casualties.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Justice Elena Kagan, dissenting from the court’s ruling, cited numerous derogatory statements that Trump has made about Haiti.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
He says Youn is a derogatory name and since we are living in Vietnam, we should not use it.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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