| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Tending or intending to belittle: deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, disparaging, low, pejorative, slighting, uncomplimentary. See PRAISE. 2. Damaging to the reputation: calumnious, defamatory, injurious, invidious, scandalous, slanderous. Law : libelous. See ATTACK, CRIMES, LAW.
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