Disparagingly - Law Dictionary Search Results
derogatorily
In a derogatory manner disparagingly
dorky
stupid socially inept unfashionable or ridiculous always used disparagingly
faggot
a male homosexual always used disparagingly and considered offensive
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Gringo
Among Spanish Americans a foreigner especially an American or sometimes an Englishman often used disparagingly or as a term of reproach
muttonhead
A stupid or foolish person a dolt a numbskull a blockhead disparaging and offensive These words are used to express a low opinion of someones intelligence
Office
Office, an employment, either judicial, municipal (see CORPORATE OFFICE), civil, military, or ecclesiastical. As to obtaining offices by desert only, the repealed 12 Ric. 2, c. 2, enacted that-- The Chancellor, Treasurer, . . . the...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents...
Libel
Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without...
Forfeiture of marriage
Forfeiture of marriage, an ancient writ which lay against him who, holding by knight's service and being under age and unmarried, refused to marry the woman whom the lord offered him without disparagement, and married another,...
Defamatory statement
Defamatory statement, is a statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally or to cause him to be shunned or avoided or to expose him to hatred,...
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