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derogatory treatment

noun/dɪˈrɒɡətəri ˈtriːtmənt/

C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A distortion or mutilation of a work that prejudices the author's honour or reputation.

Colourising the film against the director's wishes was alleged to be derogatory treatment of the work.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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