Word or grammatical form expressing a low opinion of someone or something.
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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.
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Coming up with the alt-right's favourite term of abuse might have gone to his head.
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The word anecdotal now seems to be regarded as a term of abuse in research circles.
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I refuse to allow the Nazis to tell me that that is a term of abuse.
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Hitherto 'atheist' had been a term of abuse, a particularly nasty slur to hurl at your enemies.
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Yes, despite my high esteem for him, I will apply to him the Johnsonian term of abuse.
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I thought "amateur" was a term of abuse for anyone not very good at their job.
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It's almost a term of abuse.
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Once a term of abuse to denigrate a whole generation and then extended by gloating, trium(...)
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They were made by travelling people in an era before "tinker" became a term of abuse.
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Much may be forgiven, however, to the introducer of so charming a term of abuse as "profluvious."
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AS A card-carrying member of the middle class, I'm occasionally stung when it is used as a term of abuse.