Sentences with phrase «pejorative word»

A pejorative word is a term or word that is used to insult or belittle someone or something. It is a negative or derogatory term that aims to demean or criticize. Full definition
Rather than attaching pejorative words and phrases such as «McCarthyite mentality,» «hard - hearted,» «apocalyptic mentality,» and «bitter» to describe those who see a danger in accommodation, perhaps Reno, in a respectful way, should consider first what animates their concerns.
However, even the best parents I know find themselves in situations where they are running late, they actually * need * to be somewhere (I'm thinking of a specialist doctors appointment that has been scheduled for months, for instance), and Bubs is being (for lack of a better / less pejorative word) uncooperative.
Our love of schadenfreude means that any excuse will do to put the sensational and pejorative word cult in a headline.
«Obdurate» is a pejorative word which Cheever repeatedly transforms into a term of praise.
Actually economists call the discussion of such questions «theology,» and for them that is a pejorative word.
In most settings, liberal and even theological are pejorative words.
The reality is that «cult» is a pejorative word.
«Scientism,» Dawkins tells me later, «is the pejorative word sometimes used for the view that science can explain everything and kind of arrogates to itself the privilege of explaining everything.
(A shiksa is a pejorative word for a non-Jewish woman; the speaker was the artist's daughter.)
DALE: You and I, Robert, are old enough to remember when «discriminate» was not a pejorative word.
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