Invective vs Derogatory - What's the difference?
invective | derogatory |
An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
Something spoken or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another.
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A harsh or reproachful accusation.
Characterized by invection or railing.
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 a verb invective
is .As an adjective 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.invective
English
Noun
(en noun)- Politics can raise invective to a low art.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last.
Synonyms
* (characterized by invection or railing) abusive, critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic, vituperative (Webster 1913) ----derogatory
English
Adjective
(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.
