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

• ''nigger''is a derogatory term used to insult our ancestors.
  “黑鬼”是一个贬义词，用来侮辱我们的祖先的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Although somewhat derogatory, Westerners tend to use it without the derogatory connotations.
  尽管有些贬义，但西方学者却把它当成一个中性甚至是褒义词。
• "Opera jokery" is a traditional derogatory term for actors.
  “戏子”就是传统上对演员的鄙称。
• To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.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。
• I can't bear his derogatory remarks about my brother's character.
  我无法忍受他对我弟弟的个性的诽谤。
• After years of parents giving their children silly names the Mexican state of Sonora released a list of of names that were banned for being derogatory, pejorative, discriminatory or lacking in meaning.
  经过了这些年父母给孩子取了不少蠢名字，墨西哥索诺拉州发布了一张取名名单，禁止取名贬义的、轻蔑的、有歧视的或贫穷的含义。
• 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。
• It has a mocking meaning, but it's not necessarily derogatory, he said. Plus we think it'll stay around for a while, because in real life there really are these kind of people and therefore a need to describe them.
  它有点嘲弄意味，但不一定是贬义，他说，另外我们觉得它会长期存在，因为现实生活中真的存在这样的人，所以我们需要有个词来描述他们。