Oppress vs Derogatory - What's the difference?
oppress | derogatory |
(obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
* , II.x:
To keep down by force
To make sad or gloomy
Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.
* (rfdate) (Blackstone).
* (rfdate) (Macaulay).
(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 oppress
is (obsolete) physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.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.oppress
English
Verb
(es)- Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
- The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
- We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.
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* * English transitive verbsderogatory
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.