Sentences with phrase «pejorative meaning»

In the first chapter, he reclaims the word dogma from its popular pejorative meaning, defining it as an accurate statement of what is true, and setting out the relation between philosophy and theology that frames the rest of the book.

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«This isn't meant to be pejorative, but you're a classic middleman,» he says.

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

«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.»

The Masters is golf's Super Bowl, and I mean that as a pejorative term.

First of all we never used the term «Potty» it's common and I do mean that in the pejorative.

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».

As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning «the fickle crowd», from which the English term «mob» was originally derived in the 1680s.

I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to destroy public education.

Is it meant to be pejorative?

In many ways the changes in the publishing world means there has never been a better time for an author to become published and pejorative terms are not necessarily helpful.

The term «genre» eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualized it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

That doesn't mean criticism has to be negative in the sense of pejorative; in fact, it can be affirmative if its negativity is clarifying — explosions clear the air!

Also: «baroque» is sometimes used in a pejorative sense to mean over-elaborate, florid.

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

Yes, «limitations» was definitely meant non-pejoratively - primarily because I thought it unlikely that anything pejorative would get through!

1) If «limitations» isn't meant as pejorative, certainly.

The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the arguers of alternative points of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.

You seem to misunderstand the word «denizen» — it has no pejorative implication — just means «an inhabitant, or frequenter».

I don't mean this in a pejorative sense, I mean in in fact.

Originally it meant the science of ideas; but shrewd politicians like Napoleon Bonaparte corrupted it to mean something more pejorative, even sinister.

One is that most law professors are very able at teaching the casuistic (in its original, not pejorative, meaning) process which is legal analysis (and many other types of logical analysis) which process, for whatever reason, the students» undergraduate professors weren't able to adequately explain.

Third, he was definite federal judge material, meant in that slightly sarcastic yet pejorative sense.

«My view is, frankly, that people in law schools know more about teaching and learning and training than most members of the law society, and I don't mean that to sound pejorative at all, but we all have our areas of expertise.»

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.

The headline of this review isn't meant to be pejorative.