derogatory
I
adjective
belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, censorious, condemnatory, contumelious, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, detracting, detractory, disapprobatory, disapproving, discrediting, disdainful, dishonoring, disparaging, faultfinding, injurious, lessening, libelous, objurgatory, pejorative, slanderous, slighting, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering
associated concepts: derogatory statements
foreign phrases:
- Quae legi communi derogant stride interpretantur. — Those things which derogate from the common law are strictly interpreted
- Quae legi communi derogant non sunt trahenda in exemplum. — Those things which derogate from the common law are not to be drawn into precedent
II
index
bad (offensive), calumnious, contemptuous, critical (faultfinding), cynical, disgraceful, libelous, pejorative, unfavorable
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006