---

• s  expressive of low opinion

• A Boston Police officer is being suspended (and Likely terminated) for a racially derogative e-mail.
• The "right" has made it a point to turn "liberal" into a derogative term, and to some extent this has been successful.
• As to the "mouthpiece" term (or the not-so-derogative in Chinese), it is a somewhat sad but accepted reality of all official news media staffs in China at the current stage .

• derogatory
• disparaging

News & Articles

---

• There's an effort to make the Washington Redskins football team change its name because some consider it derogatory ...
  The name is politically incorrect and should be changed. I see nothing wrong with a private organization naming its team the "Redskins." The name is clearly derogative and the NFL should mandate a change.
  Oct. 21, 2013 - The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle

Quotes

---

• Steve Kragthorpe in Louisville Courier-Journal
  I talked to Rich yesterday, and that did not happen,Kragthorpe said. "They were jawing back and forth, and both said some very derogative things to each other. Pat may have thought Preston spit in his face, but I talked to my player and...
• Hasso Plattner in ITworld.com
  The Germany's Workers' Council Constitution Act, which supports the establishment of an employee representation body, was established at a time when "globalization was either an unknown concept or regarded predominately as a derogative term,"...