pejorative
Example Sentences
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What was once a pejorative term—“moonlighting”—morphed into a more-attractive “side hustle.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
"Mercenary" is a particularly pejorative word in Arabic.
From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025
The tweets are written in all caps and are smattered with random old-guy quotation marks, parentheticals, and pejorative nicknames.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2025
Dr Upton claimed Ms Peggie was aggressive during the exchange, adding: "I consider the act of waiting for a colleague to leave, confronting her, asking personal questions, and using pejorative language inappropriate."
From BBC • Feb. 10, 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
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