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term to label a specific kind of monster. By extension, the word ghoul is also used in a derogatory sense to refer to a person who delights in the macabre...

vulgar slang for women's genitals. The word pussy is also used in a derogatory sense to mean cowardly, weak, or easily fatigued. The Collins Dictionary...

describe non-participants, or in a derogatory sense; its most common use was simply a private citizen or amateur as opposed to a government official, professional...

on 28 February 1791 by Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan in a derogatory sense, speaking about a "sans-culottes army". The word came into vogue during the...

In the late 1800's, the term "rat-run" was used meaning "maze-like passages by which rats move about their territory", commonly used in a derogatory sense...

in reference to a senior Israeli officer, in a derogatory sense implying that the officer in question is over-officious, incompetent, or involved in internecine...

(LCD) immediately after capture. Some photographers use the term in a derogatory sense to describe the actions of amateur photographers, but the act of...

(also written as "zidi", "judi" or "jidi"), which means "Jewish" in a derogatory sense. There is an extensive Judeo-Persian poetic religious literature...

Originally the term was used to describe a ridiculous but amusing person. The term is now frequently used in a derogatory sense to describe someone considered foolish...

nickname, or surname Ginger, a slang term referring to a person with red hair, sometimes in a derogatory sense Hurricane Ginger, a 1971 Atlantic hurricane...

A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or a disrespectful connotation, a low opinion...

in a derogatory sense, to the economic conditions in the United States in the 2000s, during the recovery from the bursting of the dot-com bubble. In an...

regarding legislative control of local appropriations. In election campaigns, the term is used in derogatory fashion to attack opponents. Typically, "pork" involves...

As such, throughout history it was generally used in a derogatory sense. — Owen Davies, Paganism: A Very Short Introduction, 2011 The term pagan derives...

used in a derogatory sense, as Lombard banking was associated with the sin of usury. Lombard lenders became active throughout Western Europe in the 13th...

of it, or even any suggestion that the word 'sucker' was used in the derogatory sense in his day. Barnum was just not the type to disparage his patrons...

historian Flavius Josephus refers to Amalek as a "bastard" (νόθος) in a derogatory sense. Amalek is described in Genesis 36:16 as the "chief of Amalek" among...

applied to a man or boy, bitch reverses its meaning and is a derogatory term for being subordinate, weak, or cowardly.[citation needed] In gay speech...

British people supported flat Earth. The term flat-Earth-man, used in a derogatory sense to mean anyone who holds ridiculously antiquated or impossible views...

hurdles in the film industry compared to their male counterparts, and also revealed that she was perplexed by the use of "feminist" in a derogatory sense. Knightley...