What does DL stand for?

Derogatory Label

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.
Slang/chat, popular culture

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Samples in periodicals archive:

ROBERT A Murphy (Voice of the North, May 25) falls back on the derogatory label "Little Englanders" to describe those who would appear to have a better understanding of the true nature and intent of the European Union than himself.

EU has succeeded where Hitler failed; VOICE OF THE NORTH

The woman used "Arab" as a derogatory label yet McCain didn't respond at all to this slur.

Race poisons US campaign

A section entitled "The Illness Is Not Our Identity" explains why it's necessary to cast aside derogatory labels for people with any type of disability, physical or mental.

Mind Race

Only this spring, five men who believed in the words "white power" have been indicted for the murder of a non-white, someone for whom the literature of hatred would have had a derogatory label.

(Legal language)

The mother complained to the furniture store, which blamed the supplier, who pointed to a computer problem as the source of the derogatory label Kingsoft Corp.

Offensive couch label traced to China

But if I fail to be swayed by this Democratic line of defense on how I should view the latest course of events, I run the risk of being branded with such derogatory labels as ``mean-spirited,'' ``right-wing zealot'' or the latest gem, ``Taliban.

PUBLIC FORUM : ALLOW THE PEOPLE TO VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT

If service providers are "ants," and caring voters are "meddlers," we are not sure what derogatory label Michelle Malkin would attach to the 47,000 children who attend Seattle Public Schools.

FAMILIES AND EDUCATION LEVY COLUMN CRITICAL OF MEASURE IGNORES KEY ...