derogatory
    adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments";
           "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn:
           derogative, derogatory, disparaging]

derogatory \de*rog"a*to*ry\, a.
   Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing a low
   opinion; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; --
   with from, to, or unto.

   Syn: belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory,
        derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting,
        pejorative, denigratory.
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              Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of
              subsequent Parliaments bind not.    --Blackstone.
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              His language was severely censured by some of his
              brother peers as derogatory to their other.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of
      secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which
      he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition
      that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless
      this clause is inserted word for word; -- a precaution to
      guard against later wills extorted by violence, or
      obtained by suggestion.
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