The phrase
"pejorative way" means using words or expressions that are derogatory, negative, or disrespectful towards someone or something.
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So David, did you read the link on «Tahrif» — were you aware of
this pejorative way orthodox Islam (and even much of moderate Islam) views Christian and Jewish scripture?
I don't subscribe to using IC to stand for Institutional Church in a negative or
pejorative way.
I don't mean weakness in
a pejorative way.
«Volleyball is called a girls» game, often, unfortunately, in
a pejorative way,» says Shewman.
And I don't say that in
a pejorative way.
Bartyzel argues that» [The term] «Manic Pixie Dream Girl» was useful when it commented on the superficiality of female characterizations in male dominated journeys, but it has since devolved into
a pejorative way to deride unique women in fiction and reality.»
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.
I knew not to expect rigour when Weinberger made some silly remarks which I can't quote exactly, using the word «binary» in
a pejorative way.
Drs. Katherine Bauer, Julie Lumeng, and Kendrin Sonneville from the University of Michigan offer a commentary (10.1542 / peds.2018 - 0233) that helps us better focus on helping parents who we know want to protect their children from the social and health - related consequences of becoming overweight or obese, but do so in
a pejorative way.
And while it's sometimes employed in both
a pejorative way — in the same spirit as, say, «Big Government» or «Big Oil» — and in a positive but overly generalized way akin to «cloud computing,» those characterizations are more misleading than elucidating.