Sentences with phrase «pejorative connotations of»

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».

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.

Not exact matches

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

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