Sentences with phrase «pejorative connotation»

It usually carries pejorative connotations of a willful disconnect from the everyday world: esoteric, over-specialized, or even useless research, and academic elitism.

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».

This is concerning in the context of the US military, where that diagnosis carries a strongly pejorative connotation.

Even with the difficulties discussed above, the conversation about cross-gen games and development is riddled with pejorative connotations.

During the 19th century the term acquired pejorative connotations, meaning trivial or over-ornate.

Maybe one day the word «religion» will lose its pejorative connotations, just like the word «god» might.

Unfortunately, this use of Pharisaism in the Gospels has led to a pejorative connotation that is wholly unjustified.

One who shows zeal, after all, is known as a zealot, a word that has pejorative connotations, as does its cognate zealotry.

Just the pejorative connotation behind the word «cheat» is enough to psychologically trigger a binge.

It's gaudy in every pejorative connotation of the word, packed to the rafters with distracting, stupid, show - offy clutter of the sort that people accumulate when they fear they don't have substance without it.

I have to be aware of the relevant «trends» (despite the pejorative connotations of that word) that are occurring in the art world.

Whatever interpretation is given to this comment, the comment bears a pejorative connotation to which no witness ought to have been subjected.

Recently, we introduced a radically revised definition of Hypochondriasis, which we call Health anxiety to decrease the pejorative connotation.