pejorative

Example Sentences

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This pivot away from the cradle-to-grave approach is likely due in part to what Mangold described last year as “the pejorative way people refer to musical biopics.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

"Mercenary" is a particularly pejorative word in Arabic.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

“Learn to code” is, after all, used as a pejorative against people in famously less stable fields, like journalism.

From Slate • May 20, 2025

"That's a pejorative that's applied to me to keep me from asking difficult questions about powerful interests," he told senators.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

I’d stopped using the word fascinated to describe the way he engaged with me and my life, because the pejorative iteration of the word no longer seemed fair.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi