Pejorative

In a November 2022 court filing, prosecutors said Miller told investigators he'd met with Graber the day of her murder, that he felt "frustration" over her hurting his grade point average, and in their interview referred to her with a coarse pejorative.

It’s supposed to stand for “queer,” but that used to be a generic (and pejorative) term for anyone who was gay or bisexual.

And if (when) he says something pejorative about the court proceedings, what action does the judge take?

Historically, when “Zionist” becomes a pejorative, persecution of Jews has followed, and many American Jews see the rise in reported incidents of antisemitism as evidence of this once again.

To say that a new play betrays a sitcom sensibility probably sounds a little pejorative, under most circumstances.

China Joe and Beijing Biden could be more than pejorative nicknames Trumpers throw at the Democrats’ nominee.

Furthermore, Mackey insightfully characterizes socialism as “trickle-up poverty” in a play on the old pejorative “trickle-down economics” that leftists used to throw at Ronald Reagan’s supply-side philosophy.

This deployment of “Florida Man” as a pejorative is most obvious when the location of a man whose behavior has led to a scandalous story is unknown, and the phrase, “he must be from Florida,” is sanctimoniously uttered by elites.

Words with legitimate uses are going to continue being used, even if they also have pejorative meanings.

Yet increasingly I find it seductive – not as a sneering pejorative but for the way it sums up a kind of progressive narrowness of vision that exists in many quarters, but is particularly notable in my homeland.

Among other things, Carlson described Martha Stewart’s daughter Alexis Stewart, journalist Arianna Huffington and Britney Spears with pejorative terms, according to transcripts posted by the outlet.

As he has done in the past, he is using the loaded — and pejorative — word “spying” to describe a lawful FISA warrant executed against Page.

At every juncture Trump turns an accusation against him into a pejorative attack against his opponents.

I love it when some motorcycle riding butthead, or even better a bicyclist, uses some variant of "cager" or "metal cage" as a pejorative and thinks they've really pulled off a sick burn.

Of course, Trumpspeak has bastardized the term, the concept, into a pejorative.

What is required of us is the study of — and not in any pejorative or dismissive sense, but in the sense of an ineradicable element of human consciousness.

What would you say to anyone who was troubled by the somewhat pejorative definitions of the term ‘witch’ that you open the discussion in your book with?

Yet even they could not bring themselves to use the loaded word "Rohingya", referring to the persecuted minority in their statement with the pejorative term "Bengali", which suggests they are from Bangladesh.

And using the pejorative term “oligarchs” and showing evidence of home renovations aren’t necessarily relevant to the charges in question, he added.

For many years, editorial codes have included anti-discrimination clauses, such as this one from the standards the Guardian follows: “The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to … any physical or mental illness or disability.