Usage of "pejorative"

rus

дерогатив

portuguès

pejorativo

espanyol

peyorativo

català

pejoratiu

Word or grammatical form expressing a low opinion of someone or something.

Termes relacionats

pejoratiu

Expressing disapproval.

Termes relacionats

uncomplimentary

Sinònims

Examples for "pejoratives"

Plodding, impotent and characterless: these type of pejoratives were supposedly banished in Ryan Giggs's brave new Manchester United world. 
 The Guardian 

Using stigmatizing pejoratives as a perverse badge of honor is a time-honored tactic for subcultures: punks, gangs, delinquents, mafias, pirates, bandits, racketeers. 
 The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie... 

DiSanto: I understand that it is considered a derogatory term by certain people. 
 Reuters 

Fag What it means to South Africans: A derogatory term. 
 The South African 

Bengali is a derogatory term for the Rohingya implying they are interlopers from Bangladesh. 
 Reuters 

Lai Dai Han is a derogatory term used to describe Vietnamese children with South Korean fathers. 
 Reuters 

They showed a swastika next to a noose and contained a derogatory term aimed at African-Americans. 
 Ebony 

Why, then, has it become a term of abuse in Ireland? 
 The Irish Times 

Christine, Atkinson said, contriving to make the name sound like a term of abuse. 
 Lucky Jim 

After all, it was bicyclists who made "pedestrian" a term of abuse. 
 The Guardian 

To him 'metaphysics' is a synonym for 'loose thinking,' and hence a term of abuse. 
 Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations 

As a term of abuse, it is extremely old. 
 The new yorker 

Wales's style became known as Warrenball, a pejorative term they felt was simplistic. 
 The Guardian 

This discredited and pejorative term has now been in abeyance for over a decade. 
 The Irish Times 

Of course it was, and don't you feel that 'betrayal' is rather a pejorative term? 
 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 

This is why "trial by media" is a pejorative term. 
 The Guardian 

Study is a pejorative term. 
 The Naked God 

Having a negative denotation or connotation.

derogatory

Ús de pejorative en anglès

Need is now seen as a pejorative that diminishes one's individual sovereignty. 
 Ebony 

It is a pejorative charge easily levelled but difficult to withdraw. 
 The Irish Times 

It's not just for the politicians that the term working-class has become pejorative. 
 The Guardian 

Wales's style became known as Warrenball, a pejorative term they felt was simplistic. 
 The Guardian 

That's a little pejorative, if I may say so, Ms. Y'breq. 
 Surface detail 

Ultra running is running, sort of, and that's not being pejorative. 
 The Irish Times 

Mercenaries is a pejorative and distinctly cruel word for a reason. 
 Wired 

Regardless of the pejorative stereotypes that may persist with Allardyce, his principles speak differently. 
 The Guardian 

Authoritarianism is not a pathology; nor is the term pejorative, for it is descriptive. 
 Conservatives without conscience 

This discredited and pejorative term has now been in abeyance for over a decade. 
 The Irish Times 

But it would disagree that this is selfish in the pejorative sense of sociobiology. 
 Is Human Nature Obsolete? 

Of course it was, and don't you feel that 'betrayal' is rather a pejorative term? 
 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 

In several posts he made pejorative puns about the party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. 
 Reuters 

One starts to see "politics"-inthe pejorative sense of the word-withinthe firm. 
 Economics Without Illusions 

The term shadow banking may have a pejorative tone, suggesting dodgy lending and borrowing practice. 
 The Irish Times 

This pejorative and pathological use of the terms is, however, more uncommon than the preceding. 
 Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic 