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Quotes About Derogatory

T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism.
~ Howard Zinn
That word 'prodigy' has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me.
~ Hilary Hahn
In a 1901 newspaper piece, peaky blinders were referred to as ''Arry' and the young women associated with them as ''Arriet'. These generic terms were used insultingly and could be equated to the derogatory use of 'Kevin' and 'Sharon' in modern society.
~ Carl Chinn
Ma'am? The worst insult known to womankind.
~ Gena Showalter
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
~ Ted Lindsay
The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.
~ Dick Gregory
Sline: 1. In Fluccish of the late Praxic age and early Reconstitution, a slang word formed by truncation of 'baseline,'which is a Praxic commercial bulshytt term. It appears to be a noun that turned into an adjective, meaning common or widely shared. 2. A noun denoting an extramuros person with no special education, skills, aspirations, or hope of acquiring same. 3. Derogatory term for a stupid or uncouth person, especially one who takes pride in those very qualities.
~ Neal Stephenson
Scrawny little mundane bastard.
~ Cassandra Clare
You have sent me a Flanders mare.
~ Henry VIII of England
Chingar: To fuck up. Its various derivatives are used for a delightful array of insults, such as chingadera (fucked-up situation), chingazos (punches thrown), and Chinga tu madre, cabrón (Go fuck your mother, asshole). Chinga tu madre, cabrón—if you don't stop this chingadera, I'm going to chingar you with chingazos.
~ Gustavo Arellano
What you mean is, he's a total asshat
~ James Patterson
PUTTING aside everything that might excite laughter by its absurdity, or detestation by its profaneness, and confining ourselves merely to an examination of the parts, it is impossible to conceive a story more derogatory to the Almighty, more inconsistent with his wisdom, more contradictory to his power, than this story is.
~ Thomas Paine
The adjectives and derivatives based on woman's distinctions are alien and derogatory when applied to human affairs; "effeminate"--too female, connotes contempt, but has no masculine analogue; whereas "emasculate"--not enough male, is a term of reproach, and has no feminine analogue. 'Virile'--manly, we oppose to 'puerile'--childish, and the very world 'virtue' is derived from 'vir'--a man.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Native Americans also insist that "squaw" is a derogatory term. Some believe it derives from a French corruption of an Iroquois epithet for vagina, analogous to "cunt" in English. Others believe it meant "bitch" in Algonquian dialects spoken in Virginia.
~ James W. Loewen
denigrating
~ Jan Moran
After him came a cast of characters out of her worst nightmares—Linda Chavez, Arch Puddington, twenty others as bad, all of whom, she could imagine, had a secret password such as a derogatory remark about Toni Morrison, whom Margaret considered a goddess.
~ Jane Smiley
You know nothing. You're nothing but a skank-ass, pencil-dick hemorrhoid. And you smell like anal leakage." "Say what?
~ Janet Evanovich
Shit for brains," Leo's father said. "That's what you got … shit for brains.
~ Janet Evanovich
Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
~ Horace Mann
Thou art a very ragged Wart.
~ William Shakespeare
Cruddy Mouthbreather
~ Holly Black
Because thoughts about ethnoracial groups have a deep resonance with thoughts about biological species, people's minds naturally turn to thoughts about the latter when they want to denigrate the former. Because derogatory thoughts are the driving force, hated or despised species are unconsciously selected to represent them.
~ David Livingstone Smith
He made her name sound like a swear word.
~ Debbie Macomber