Sentences with phrase «pejorative by»

Many of the media outlets targeted by the Trump administration are labelled as liberal which is a term used in the USA a pejorative by non-liberal voters.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

Not exact matches

For example, what if the next commenter is really offended by my remarks and, buried within a set of criticisms, calls me an idiot or some other personal pejorative?

This pejorative term means extracting income by placing tollbooths on the economy's key infrastructure.

The term «magical underwear» is a term that has been used by those who are uninformed and rather pejorative.

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

Another pejorative term is «reductionistic» — again, said by people that do not understand the complex beauty of systems defined by a minimal of simple rules.

If we are to speak of extremes — without pejorative intent — at the other end of the spectrum would be those services planned by administrators (whether presidents, deans or chaplains) which have survived as full - blown Christian liturgies expressing the theological tradition behind the institution's establishment.

«The term atheism originated from the Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning «without god (s)», used as a pejorative term applied to those thought to reject the gods worshipped by the larger society.»

Again, he uses another intentionally loaded turn - of - phrase: «Oreo» is a pejorative that kids use against black kids who «act white,» that is, they live outside of black stereotypes by doing anything from listening to classical music to wanting to pursue higher education.

Knowing that the word «dogma» is a pejorative term for most Americans, O'Connor boldly capitalized it, confessing in the upper case that «My stories have been watered and fed by Dogma.»

First used during colonial times, Isai now carries pejorative overtones of street sweeping and other occupations done by the lowest castes.

On some occasions locals refer to migrants and refugees by the pejorative «clandestini» or «illegals.»

It is inherently disingenuous, and hopes to terminally mischaracterize Free Grace theology, perpetuating a straw man by using the shameful pejorative «crossless».

If there is a common fault shared by sportsmen of all stripes and sizes it may well lie in the pejorative tendency of each of them to consider his own the one sport that matters.

The connection with negative attributes (and hence its pejorative use) like demagoguery, racism, nativism and so on is a rhetorical device used by those on the other side of the argument (that would be the anti-Trump movement in the US and the «remainers» in the UK).

An «Uncle Tom» is a pejorative generally used by one black against another.

Daesh, the prime minister's preferred term, is not an acronym of the group's full Arabic name, ad - Dawlah al - Islamiyah fi «l - «Iraq wa - sh - Sham, but a pejorative name given to it by its enemies.

Interesting question, but I think that if you're not satisfied by the answers given, it is because you already know the right answer: indeed in the US, «middle class» means «hard working» while «lower class» has a clear pejorative connotation of «people who don't want to work, who live off state's aid, food stamps, or petty criminality».

It is frequently used by opponents as a pejorative synonym for the more general «animal testing».

There appeared to be a three - way agreement on the exchange earlier this year, but some Senate Republicans balked the idea, referring to the health care law by the conservative pejorative «Obamacare.»

It was a weird gift, a bunch of durapaceous pejoratives that more than anything underscored the conscious attempt by Tinubuists to rewrite History before our very eyes.

Whoever uses the pejorative Harperson is playing to the rules set by the right wing and attacking, using their language, the idea that there is a role for people in promoting feminism.

Perpetuation of the HIV epidemic in gay and bisexual men is not directed solely by person - level behaviors but is influenced by a range of contextual A pejorative (also called a derogatory term, a slur, a term of abuse, or a term of disparagement) is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative

An elderly miner played by Bill Nighy and a community leader played by Imelda Staunton (whom you remember as the abortionist in Mike Leigh's 2004 film «Vera Drake») add zest to the proceedings, which yield not only the new camaraderie between miners and «perverts» (as the gays call themselves to «own» the pejorative) but a new entente between one young man and his family.

I find it fascinating that the term «education reformer» is being used in such a pejorative way by Ravitch and others (though the strategy is obvious: lump together everyone fighting to change the status quo in hopes of getting the public to dismiss them en masse.

Regarding my comment before, this is literally the closest thing you will even find to a general definition of BYB anywhere; «Backyard Breeder is a term used for breeders of dogs in a largely pejorative sense by the Animal Welfare community, ASPCA, larger established breeders and dog club.

This term was later twisted to the pejorative «hunt n» peck» because numerous graphic adventure games, in lieu of offering clever and interesting puzzles, would hide important items in a 2 - pixel - square hit area so that the player's only recourse was to slowly scan each and every location by trawling the cursor slowly over the screen in rows, like he was a human dot matrix printer.

«Women's work» (or «woman's work»), usually a pejorative term for women's gender - restricted domestic roles, was redefined by feminist artists.

Steinberg suggested that early in his career Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) had exploded the possibilities of painting - in both liberating and pejorative senses - by treating his pictures» surfaces like tables on which anything might be combined with anything.

[1]» In the realm of questionable practices (the pejorative figure that teaches self - help is an uncertain academic after all, an inexpert by trade), this tenderness is essential.

And when it started being called Zombie Formalism, not so much by me but just by the writers for The New York Times, and by Roberta Smith and by Jerry Saltz, picked up the term right away as a pejorative.

For those invoking the «denier as conspiracy theorist» pejorative need only consider the gems left here by Fanboy and now Naq;

To me the really interesting thing is that climate science is often called a religion on this list in a strictly pejorative sense, frequently by the very same people that then assert that the bible is some sort of standard for truth.

Of course, I realise that you (or Dr. Lindzen) might beg to differ, but the point is, if you did, just by giving me a pair of coordinates, I would have a fair idea where you stood and there'd be nothing pejorative about that in my mind.

Yet if one does not «believe climate change is real» one is castigated with pejorative adjectives by those who equivocate between «climate change» and «catastrophic anthropogenic global warming»!

Now, taking even the most wildly optimistic statement of certainty of AGW — the «very likely (> 90 % probability) stated by IPCC in AR4, this hardy makes AGW a «fact» such as gravity, and thus subject to the pejorative denialist label (Catastrophic AGW and effectiveness of mitigations would have certainty far far below this 90 %).

The term generally conveys a pejorative connotation that the advocate is driven by political, ideological, financial, and other unscientific motives...

I find these charges of «alarmism» by right - leaning pundits and «cherry picking» by conservatives like, Roger Pielke Jr., as little more than pejorative labelling.

Up until February, no one knew that Rick Frenkel, an in - house lawyer at Cisco by day, was also the anonymous blogger behind the controversial Patent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to be patent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic.

The omission may well be down to the simple fact that the phrase «human rights» has passed into the lexicon of pejorative terms employed by the British media, alongside «political correctness», as shorthand for something that runs contrary to a deeply ingrained British sense of fair play.

The case stems from St. Lewis claim that Rancourt damaged her reputation by using a pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

This week, St. Lewis won her three - year libel case against Rancourt and was awarded $ 350,000 in damages by an Ottawa civil jury, based on damages to her reputation stemming from Rancourt's use of the pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

The mayor claimed that the resident had engaged in workplace harassment and violence, contrary to the OHSA, by sending her numerous «increasingly abrasive» letters and emails in which he made pejorative statements about the mayor and made comments about the «unprofessional conduct» of the town.

I did not mean ignorant in the pejorative sense but in an objective sense that the member apparently does not understand the process by which domain names are registered on the Internet.