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Meanings of pejorative term in anglès
Word or grammatical form expressing a low opinion of someone or something.
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Examples for "derogatory"
Examples for "derogatory"
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There'd been nothing derogatory or recent under either personal or business files.
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Asked if that was not derogatory language, he said it was not.
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There is nothing derogatory to her in what you say-quite the reverse.
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No truth can be derogatory to the presumed fountain of all truth.
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The flock, with shrill, derogatory remarks, flew in an airline straight away.
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Need is now seen as a pejorative that diminishes one's individual sovereignty.
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It is a pejorative charge easily levelled but difficult to withdraw.
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It's not just for the politicians that the term working-class has become pejorative.
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Wales's style became known as Warrenball, a pejorative term they felt was simplistic.
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That's a little pejorative, if I may say so, Ms. Y'breq.
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Plodding, impotent and characterless: these type of pejoratives were supposedly banished in Ryan Giggs's brave new Manchester United world.
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Using stigmatizing pejoratives as a perverse badge of honor is a time-honored tactic for subcultures: punks, gangs, delinquents, mafias, pirates, bandits, racketeers.
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DiSanto: I understand that it is considered a derogatory term by certain people.
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Fag What it means to South Africans: A derogatory term.
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Bengali is a derogatory term for the Rohingya implying they are interlopers from Bangladesh.
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Lai Dai Han is a derogatory term used to describe Vietnamese children with South Korean fathers.
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They showed a swastika next to a noose and contained a derogatory term aimed at African-Americans.
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Why, then, has it become a term of abuse in Ireland?
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Christine, Atkinson said, contriving to make the name sound like a term of abuse.
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After all, it was bicyclists who made "pedestrian" a term of abuse.
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To him 'metaphysics' is a synonym for 'loose thinking,' and hence a term of abuse.
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As a term of abuse, it is extremely old.
Usage of pejorative term in anglès
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Wales's style became known as Warrenball, a pejorative term they felt was simplistic.
2
This discredited and pejorative term has now been in abeyance for over a decade.
3
Of course it was, and don't you feel that 'betrayal' is rather a pejorative term?
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This is why "trial by media" is a pejorative term.
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Study is a pejorative term.
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Shadow banking became a pejorative term because of its role in the 2007-09 financial crisis.
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The third word, pollsters at the Pew Research Center said, is a pejorative term that "rhymes with rich".
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Another song entitled "The Swarm" redefined David Cameron's famously pejorative term for migrants as "highly intelligent community action".
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We'd hate to think that it's simply a pejorative term for freedom and that that is what people were campaigning against.
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Silo said: "The Americans have strategic interests here after the end of Daesh," using a pejorative term for Islamic State.
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In a way, we're trying to have the same rights blacks have asked for: asking that 'Witch' like 'nigger' stop being a pejorative term.
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The pejorative term was coined by O Henry (William Sidney Porter) in his 1904 collection of short stories entitled Cabbages and Kings.
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Globalist might not carry discriminatory connotations anymore, but it is still a pejorative term, and its use is a pretty strong indicator of someone's worldview.
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Sir, -The referendum was portrayed by parties opposed to it as a one demanding further "austerity", a pejorative term for spending reform.
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But when "dirty" was tagged on to his name, the freight of that pejorative term brought him into a whole new discomfort zone.
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Even when biologists have noted these exceptions, they tend to describe them in pejorative terms, she says.
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Translations for pejorative term
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