disparaging
He said the fight started because someone said something derogatory about his family.
You seem to be more interested in making derogatory remarks than in discussing the facts.
They agreed not to say anything derogatory about the film.
He used the derogative and outdated word "spinster" to refer to a single woman.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Critical & uncomplimentary
acidulous
aloof
astringency
astringently
barbed
be all very wellidiom
captious
censorious
damning
hypercritical
pungently
scarifying
scarifyingly
scathing
scathingly
scorchingly
shade
uncomplimentary
venomous
witheringly

derogatory | American Dictionary

derogatory
adjective
us/dɪˈrɑɡ·əˌtɔr·i, -ˌtoʊr·i/
expressing criticism or insult:
She was upset by derogatory comments made about her clothes.

Examples of derogatory

derogatory
Since the force of a derogatory label must be maintained through repetition, it can be challenged through repetition as well.
He referred to the survivors in derogatory terms.
English speakers frequently sought help from a bilingual in order to learn a derogatory phrase that could be used as a retort.
Such an absurd, derogatory imitation creates a new truth, a new norm for social acceptability.
In passing lasting words on to others, no older people in this sample offered communications of a derogatory nature.
Derogatory comments take many forms, and have an impact on self-concept and the wellbeing of the recipient.
However, 91 of the 297 inspected women were called ' kvinnspersoner ' (a derogatory term for a woman at the time).
The bilinguals had silently overheard and understood the derogatory jokes by the medical staff.
I do not use the word politics in a derogatory sense.
There must be some limits to the derogatory remarks we can make about gossips.
Now it has no such derogatory meaning, but is used merely descriptively in a religious or ethnic sense that should cause offence to no one.
Speech coded as devaluing is characterized by belittling, criticism, mocking sarcasm, or derogatory or condescending language.
The possibility of derogatory matrices (an eigenvalue with geometric multiplicity greater than one) may even render certain invariant subspaces unreachable.
Some older people, however, reported derogatory remarks that had remained with them throughout their lives.
Despite the popular view that personal that applied to individuals is somehow derogatory, it is never clearly intended as such.
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