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This is true not in a pejorative sense but in a statistical one, as in the average between high and low.
REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK, THE MAN WITH ALL THE ANSWERSOLIVER ROEDERNOVEMBER 9, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
But given its age and its purpose this ought not to be construed in the contemporary, pejorative sense.
DIEGO COLLADO'S GRAMMAR OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGEDIEGO COLLADO
This term is a pejorative which may be applied also to the exercise of our other senses.
THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF LOVEREMY DE GOURMONT
Alternatively, Professor A. Dalzell points out to me that illa could have a pejorative sense.
WORDS RELATED TO PEJORATIVE
- abuse
- aspersion
- backbiting
- backstabbing
- belittlement
- calumny
- damage
- defamation
- denigration
- deprecation
- derogation
- disesteem
- disparagement
- harm
- hit
- hurt
- injury
- injustice
- innuendo
- insinuation
- knock
- libel
- lie
- minimization
- muckraking
- obloquy
- pejorative
- revilement
- ridicule
- running down
- scandal
- scandalmongering
- scurrility
- slam
- smear campaign
- tale
- traducement
- vilification
- vituperation
- wrong
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- defamatory
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disparaging
- humiliating
- hurting
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shaming
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
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