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comparative more derogative, superlative most derogative
Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling. quotations examples
"How strange, but then again, he is a strange man." [...] "Don't get me wrong. I did not mean that in a derogative sense."
1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 149
Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates examples
plural derogatives
(rare) A derogatory word or word-form. quotations
(interposing s, the characteristic of diminutives and derogatives)
1870, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, volume 2, page 24