What's the difference between derogatory and rude?

Derogatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So again, they did what they had to and should do.” Aakjaer’s Facebook account also contained other derogatory references to eastern Europeans, a message of support for the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti’s views about border control and a photograph of six pigs with a caption: “It’s time to deploy our secret weapons against Islamists.” When Aakjaer was contacted by the Guardian in January, he said that he was not “a racist at all”.
  • (2) While those "close relation[s]" are not supposed to be passed on for watchlisting absent other "derogatory information", their data may be retained within TIDE for unspecified "analytic purposes".
  • (3) Dunham similarly opted for a snarky introduction, invoking Trump’s derogatory comments toward women the crowd: “I’m Lena Dunham and, according to Donald Trump, I’m like a two.” Both actors were early supporters of Clinton’s and stumped for her during the Democratic primary.
  • (4) Then there is the bedroom tax (it is always a good moment for an opposition when they make a derogatory label stick to a policy), which the Department for Work and Pensions estimates will affect 660,000 tenants.
  • (5) The few alluring aspect of these patients would signify the derogatory imago of a destroyed body, that does not be the mediator of the relationship to the other.
  • (6) Andy Gray, the Sky Sports presenter at the centre of a sexism storm following derogatory comments about a female official, has been sacked by the broadcaster in response to "new evidence of unacceptable and offensive behaviour".
  • (7) Wilson began hearing voices "saying derogatory things", telling him that he was finished and was going to die soon, a condition that continues to this day.
  • (8) The ASA said that the ads did not directly link the word "pussy" with women and so was not derogatory or sexist to women.
  • (9) Retrospective media analysis would probably show that the term welfare was used increasingly during the 1990s often in a derogatory manner – a 1993 Sunday Times splash about lone mothers being "wedded to welfare" being a typical example.
  • (10) I mean, it’s interesting; last year I was here there was a Ukip town councillor who said derogatory things about gay marriage, it was a national news story, it led on some of the BBC bulletins.
  • (11) The Conservative MP Tracey Crouch, who sits on Parliament's culture, media and sport select committee, told the Mirror, "It's disappointing at a time when he's trying to encourage more women to play football that he is using derogatory terminology."
  • (12) The players admitted to an exchange studded with offensive terms including "cunt", "fuck off" and "knobhead", plus derogatory personal comments, with Ferdinand referring to claims Terry had an affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the former partner of his ex-team-mate Wayne Bridge.
  • (13) Kathimerini has the details : Pulled up,,,for using derogatory language, Iliopoulos went further, condemning fellow MPs as "wretched sell-outs" and "goats".
  • (14) While in a separate exchange on Facebook, of which the Daily Mail has photographs, Edoardo called another fan a “moron” during a heated exchange and also used another derogatory term.
  • (15) Former footballer Stan Collymore has accused Twitter of not doing enough to combat illegal abuse on the network, during a week when he and the former gymnast Beth Tweddle have both been subjected to derogatory comments.
  • (16) Managers who are derogatory, angry, or arrogant find that confrontation is ineffective in motivating their staff to improve.
  • (17) They included derogatory messages about Smith as a Jew, the South Korean international Kim Bo-kyung, reportedly four other offensive texts, and a reference to Vincent Tan, Cardiff City’s Malaysian owner, as “the Chink”.
  • (18) Starting today, we’re taking a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content,” Schindler says.
  • (19) While this is reflective of a wider societal problem , teachers can do their bit by cracking down on language when it is used in a derogatory or abusive way.
  • (20) Three hours after reading the text, 58 of the subjects were exposed to a non-factual, derogatory comment on the World Cup.

Rude


Definition:

  • (superl.) Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
  • (superl.) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
  • (superl.) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.
  • (superl.) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
  • (superl.) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
  • (superl.) Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You need a little moleskine, to write rude ideas... Mel No, I’ve just started recycling them.
  • (2) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
  • (3) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
  • (4) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
  • (5) This country has had a free press for the last 300 years, that has been irreverent and rude as my website is and holding public officials to account.
  • (6) We had some memorable encounters and he was very rude to me.
  • (7) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
  • (8) There will be dialogue and discussions about what works, rather than rude surprises that backfire.
  • (9) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
  • (10) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
  • (11) If someone was rude to you, you were rude back to them.
  • (12) Brexiters face rude awakening on immigration, says ex-minister Read more The problem is, there is nothing on the horizon to suggest that achieving any significant reduction in immigration is achievable or even desirable.
  • (13) He repeatedly argued that his south London upbringing meant he was rude to people who were rude to him and said Jones needed to “get over it”, although he said that he was unaware of his colleague’s history of illness.
  • (14) When he sees what he's inherited, he may get a rude awakening.
  • (15) Having reassured ourselves that we’re justified in “holding them to account” and “having robust debates” and “speaking truth to power”, we’re now just flat-out rude to their faces?
  • (16) But the fact that there is a serious disagreement between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom does not mean that you should then be discourteous or rude."
  • (17) I said to them afterwards: ‘If you’re not on it 100% in this league, you’ll get a rude awakening.’’” Albion must be sick of the sight of QPR and Charlie Austin in particular.
  • (18) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
  • (19) She said something rude, and I picked up her arm and I bit it!
  • (20) So instead of asking for anything on her birthday, she gives her friends presents, and she regularly sticks bullies and rude policemen in trees.