pejorative

Example Sentences

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There is a pejorative word—reactionary—to describe such an enterprise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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 is a pejorative … that’s applied to me mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions of powerful interests,” said Kennedy, 71, the son of former Atty.

From Los Angeles Times • 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