Sentences with phrase «pejorative terms for»

The governing body is aware of three tweets the 21 - year - old apparently sent in 2012 and 2013 when he was a member of Barnsley's youth set - up, that contain pejorative terms for gay men.

«Holy Rollers,» a popular but pejorative term for Pentecostals, has fallen into disuse.

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.»

The other front was known as Romanism, a pejorative term for Catholic Christianity.

A: Pink slime is the pejorative term for «lean finely textured beef,» a product designed to recover useful bits from carcass trimmings.

«Shakabula» (Yoruba pejorative term for crude arms) versus AK - 47?

In the scope of politics, It's a pejorative term for a member of the «Tea Party» which is a movement which is known for it's fiscal conservatism.

POBRECITO «Man flu» is often used as a pejorative term for when men overstate their cold symptoms as flu symptoms.

Recently the concept of a «gatekeeper» seems to have become a pejorative term for the agents, editors and other players in the traditional publishing world.

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

«Greed is just a pejorative term for the human condition of self - interest.

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.

Basically, it's a pejorative term for practices such as enforcing patents against purported infringers without intent to manufacture the patented product.

Not exact matches

It was not so very long ago that everyone called them â $ œtar sands.â $ It wasnâ $ ™ t a pejorative, but merely a descriptive term for the tarry treasure once seen as the ideal substance for paving Albert...

This term is often pejorative, implying that some are devoted to institutional matters independently of any concern for the purposes of the church.

The terms «whore» and «slut» are pejorative terms traditionally used to encourage women to live chastely, if not for love of virtue, then for fear of shame.

It should not be regarded as a pejorative term, for the sects sometimes develop into mainline churches, as did the early Methodists.

I thanked Tom for the articles he has written, and requested he stop using the term «crossless gospel» since it is a misnomer and seems to be intently pejorative.

Justin Welby called for a «ceasefire» on the use of insults, «personalised attacks» and «pejorative terms» as the process of leaving the European Union continues.

But I do not know if Muray's reasons for rejecting these are anything like mine, for he does not tell us why he thinks they are not so good; he merely uses the terms as if they were obviously pejorative, like the term «racism.»

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.

Again, this may suggest that Madden and Lenhart's (2006) conclusions about societal views of online dating more accurately represent people's real attitudes toward finding romance on the Internet than do the conclusions of scholars such as Anderson (2005) and Wildermuth (2001, 2004) such that — for persons of any age — online daters are no longer viewed in the pejorative terms they once were.

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.

Animal rights activist groups keep selling the idea that the way to get rid of sub-standard breeders — I refuse to use the pejorative term puppy mills — is to simply ban the sale of puppies, which in many cases, for simplicity, just morphs into banning the sale of all pets.

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.

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.

In your article for instance, I could simply substitute the pejorative term CAGW, with Climate Denialism throughout..

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.