derogatory

英 [dɪˈrɒɡətri]

美 [dɪˈrɑːɡətɔːri]

adj.  贬低的; 贬义的

GRETEM8法律

BNC.19106 / COCA.17206

牛津词典

adj.

• 贬低的；贬义的
  showing a critical attitude towards sb
  1. derogatory remarks/comments
     贬斥的言辞 / 评论

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 贬低的;贬损的
  If you make aderogatoryremark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
  1. He refused to withdraw derogatory remarks made about his boss.
     他拒绝收回那些贬损老板的话。

英英释义

adj

• expressive of low opinion
  1. derogatory comments
  2. disparaging remarks about the new house
  Synonym:derogativedisparaging

双语例句

• To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.
  所谓tolosetheplot可以指变得很生气或愤怒到了缺乏逻辑了，或者用于贬义可能有些过时了的意思表示某人没有理智、表现极为荒谬。
• "Opera jokery" is a traditional derogatory term for actors.
  “戏子”就是传统上对演员的鄙称。
• My comment, I don't mean it as a derogatory sense, is that we don't have any All-Stars on our team.
  我的评论，但我并不意味着它作为贬义，是说，我们没有任何的全明星赛上我们的团队。
• He refused to withdraw derogatory remarks made about his boss.
  他拒绝收回那些贬损老板的话。
• In many people's minds, however, it is derogatory and becomes a synonym for feudal monarchy and the family rules, cardinal guides and preaching which lack humanity for complex historical reasons.
  “礼教”是中国特有的一种教育思想和教育模式，然而由于复杂的历史原因，在许多人心中它充满了贬义，成了封建专制和缺乏人性的家规、纲常与说教的代名词。
• The trait of being effeminate ( derogatory of a man).
  像柔弱的女人一样的特征（用于对男子的贬损）。
• The term scholasticism then began to be used in a derogatory sense.
  任期士林，然后开始用在一个带有贬义色彩的意识。
• A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
  犹太人对非犹太女子的贬低的称呼。
• It's a derogatory word.
  这是一个贬义词。
• In today's english, the word "oriental", when used to refer to a person, sounds old-fashioned at best and derogatory at worst.
  在今天的英语中，用“东方人”一词来指某人时，往好了说，听起来没有时代感，往坏了说，则有贬义。