Usage of the word derogatory

[rag84dec]

HI,
can anyone tell me where to use the word?...I know it means offensive...But little comfused about the usage...

[Mister Micawber]

Use it in more formal language.

Here are some examples from Time magazine:


70 1960-04-04 , " A Good English Teacher " March 14, an implication derogatory to English teachers in general. It is that English teachers
71 1961-04-07 We are astonished at the fertile imagination of your writers in finding derogatory adjectives which, in addition to being inaccurate, seem to
72 1962-06-01 Odessa. His paper broke out in a rash of loud headlinesNOTHING DEROGATORY ABOUT GRAIN STORAGE, and POLITICAL HACKS KEEP UP STRUGGLES FOR
73 1962-06-01 Odessa. His paper broke out in a rash of loud headlinesNOTHING DEROGATORY ABOUT GRAIN STORAGE, and POLITICAL HACKS KEEP UP STRUGGLES FOR
74 1963-02-22 supplement. This flashy bit of New World journalism had drawn only derogatory cracks and a small hello when Thomson introduced it last year
75 1963-12-20 " When the U.S. officially protested these words, Cambodia denied any derogatory intentions toward President Kennedy, but it huffily recalled its ambassador
76 1963-12-20 " When the U.S. officially protested these words, Cambodia denied any derogatory intentions toward President Kennedy, but it huffily recalled its ambassador
77 1965-01-29 fine-combing their collections for all sorts of song titles that might sound derogatory, such as I Kiss Your Hand, Madame, The
78 1965-03-12 as Attorney General he had tried to plant in LIFE magazine a derogatory story about Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa at a time when Hoffa
79 1965-04-23 inning, the Dodgers were ahead 2-0, and the blossomed with derogatory signs. PHOOEY! said one. Said another: WAIT
80 1965-11-12 ; 3) had " not read, seen or heard anything derogatory about the party, " and 4) would not doubt
81 1965-11-28 's Republican Senator Hugh Scott moved to strike from the report any derogatory mention of Williams. The Democratic majority, permitting neither discussion
82 1966-01-08 , a cheat and a lover of " black necks " a derogatory Kikuyu reference to the darker-skinned Luo. Moreover, suggested Jomo
83 1966-11-20 ' to any group or individual or engage in the use of derogatory terms such as nigger, boy, spic, wop,
84 1969-04-25 's dervish foreign policy has earned him the almost automatic and somewhat derogatory appellation " mercurial. " Yet Sihanouk maintains that there is
85 1970-03-09 PIG. The term is not used, however, in a derogatory sense since the three letters point up the motto awarded them
86 1970-08-03 insists that his watches are " in no way meant to be derogatory. " He does admit that " hidden political comment "
87 1970-11-18 Khrushchev and dismissed by conservative critics as a " formalist " a derogatory term for a Soviet writer who allows himself to become preoccupied
88 1971-02-15 has collected 10,000 fan letters v. seven in a file marked " derogatory. " Paul Harvey, the conservative commentator, has dispatched
89 1971-12-27 . " The rebuff has not stopped Karras from having the last derogatory word. As quick with a quip as he once was
90 1971-12-27 from the press box. " He's done nothing but say derogatory things about the team, " said Lion Public Relations Director
91 1971-12-27 I must assume the reason for his column is to say more derogatory things. " The rebuff has not stopped Karras from having
92 1972-02-21 the standards of the time, the play was considered risque and derogatory to Irish society; the controversy escalated to street riots.
93 1973-08-27 and complex " ways, he would " ask the FBI for derogatory information of one type or another on Senators in his own
94 1974-03-22 plumbers' operation. Ehrlichman told Colson of a project to get derogatory information about Ellsberg. Colson would then have to devise a
95 1974-06-17 : plastic surgery Tip: to leave Yam: a black (derogatory) Zex: careful, someone's coming Many of those
96 1974-11-04 Conn. Nelson A. Rockefeller apologizing to Arthur J. Goldberg about that derogatory book was similar to a professional boxer beating up an ordinary
97 1974-11-25 of them public officials, and that he had secretly authorized a derogatory book about his Democratic opponent, Arthur J. Goldberg, in
98 1975-01-13 to obstruction of justice for devising a scheme to get and disseminate derogatory information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg in 1971; serving
99 1975-03-31 Bravo! A cover story that will probably cause a rash of derogatory letters from jealous housewives and the fans of Lawrence Welk,
100 1975-09-01 to, married, husband, wife... and other derogatory terms. " More seriously, the couple agreed to allow
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