The main title is based on the often derogatory description of the French by the British (as well as other English speakers) and on the red coats of the British soldiers.

Both "sty" and "pigpen" are used as derogatory descriptions of dirty, messy areas.

"Auld Reekie" is a derogatory description applied to Edinburgh not Glasgow.

Cochrane is often credited with originating the term "Gardnerian" as a derogatory description of Gardner's Wicca; however, his published letter terms it as "Gardnerism".

This is because in the Muslim world Takfir is "generally used as a derogatory description for extremists that kill Muslims without sufficient religious justification".

Sukeena's face remained impassive even though, at six feet from him, she had heard the derogatory description clearly.

I quote from Mr Benavides' derogatory description of the parliamentary debate taking place in my country.

Cuban has acquired a new passion and new critics - mainly in the blogosphere - who have given him a newly derogatory description: unpatriotic and un-American.

His derogatory description might have fooled her a while back, but now she heard the affection in it, and the longing.

They used the term as a derogatory description.