Deplorable vs Derogatory - What's the difference?
deplorable | derogatory |
Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
(senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.
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(legal) When referring to a clause in a testament: a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; – a precaution to guard against later wills extorted by violence, or obtained by suggestion. (rfd-sense)
A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.
As adjectives the difference between deplorable and derogatory
is that deplorable is deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad while derogatory is tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.As a noun derogatory is
a trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.deplorable
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* patheticderogatory
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(en adjective)- Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.
- His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other.