It is usually used as an insult, sexual slur or offensive term of disparagement (slut-shaming). Outside literature, the character's name has become an insulting term of disparagement. It was intended as disparagement but the Impressionists appropriated the term for themselves. By word or deed he never encouraged the disparagement of a woman. The court reversed the USPTO's decision on the grounds of insufficient evidence of disparagement. This is the only law restricting disparagement of the state and its symbols and institutions. The "Dictionary of American Regional English" defines the term as a "general term of disparagement". There was also active disparagement, but it passed unnoticed by Tintoretto. However, researchers have worked hard to provide counter evidence to this disparagement.