Sentences with phrase «use pejorative»

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.

You misquote, misrepresent, use pejorative language, name calling, personal ad - hominem attacks, and other behavior unfit for Godly online dialogue.

«Using a pejorative to describe Rudy Giuliani in a forum like this is unfortunate.

[59] The print media in the 1980s also began using the pejorative «hard left» to sometimes describe Trotskyist groups such as the Militant tendency, Socialist Organiser and Socialist Action.

«Using a pejorative to describe Rudy Giuliani in a forum like this is unfortunate,» Lhota said.

Whoever uses the pejorative Harperson is playing to the rules set by the right wing and attacking, using their language, the idea that there is a role for people in promoting feminism.

It then uses the pejorative and false term «climate - change denialists» to blame those preventing government taking action.

The case stems from St. Lewis claim that Rancourt damaged her reputation by using a pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

Not exact matches

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

«Gay marriage» is more often used to be disparaging, as «gay» is widely used these days as a general pejorative.

The term «magical underwear» is a term that has been used by those who are uninformed and rather pejorative.

Lewis frequently used «humanism» and «humanitarian» as pejoratives, but only because in common usage those terms reflected smug liberal prejudices that were not nearly humanistic enough.

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.

Therefore I would use all the pejorative language which you suggested to denounce our government's intervention in that nation's internal political affairs — an intervention which depended substantially upon the selective allocation and sales of excess food resources.

«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.»

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

Leaving aside the imprecise and misleading use of the term «fundamentalist» and its pejorative overtones, this is, to say the very least, very strange.

Again, he uses another intentionally loaded turn - of - phrase: «Oreo» is a pejorative that kids use against black kids who «act white,» that is, they live outside of black stereotypes by doing anything from listening to classical music to wanting to pursue higher education.

Fishon: an uncompromising or undiscriminating literalist «take» on the bible can be said to generate ongoing confusion over the temporal (historical) and eternal (a-historical) divided aspects of our experience, between what is humanly rational & logical (measurable, count - able) and what is beyond (irrational and illogical (if those terms can be used descriptively, not pejorative)-- but can only be represented in physical images.

Do you know how many times «mostly white» is used as a pejorative these days?

I don't subscribe to using IC to stand for Institutional Church in a negative or pejorative way.

First used during colonial times, Isai now carries pejorative overtones of street sweeping and other occupations done by the lowest castes.

Even the word «socialism» has been used in a harshly pejorative way.

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.

Across the religious world, the word secular, now used in a positive, not pejorative, sense and the word city, now used as if far more promising than anything rural, agrarian, or traditional, rang out on everybody's lips.

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.

It would be very good to have a ceasefire from insult and the use of pejorative terms about people at this time.

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.»

It is inherently disingenuous, and hopes to terminally mischaracterize Free Grace theology, perpetuating a straw man by using the shameful pejorative «crossless».

the fact that the term midget was used here says a lot about the writer of this blog... dwarfism happens because of different medical conditions... and many people affected with dwarfism like to be called little people... midget is considered to be pejorative.

A pejorative term that's used with pride, hinting at a kind of arrogance that only winners can afford to display.

Because using a word that describes a condition someone is born with as a pejorative is what nature people do...

seems like rangewolf is the «butthurt» one (not that I'd use such a term to describe someone personally, but that's the pejorative he went with).

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

The connection with negative attributes (and hence its pejorative use) like demagoguery, racism, nativism and so on is a rhetorical device used by those on the other side of the argument (that would be the anti-Trump movement in the US and the «remainers» in the UK).

One of the problems about the pejorative use of populism as a bad thing is that it is hard to distinguish it from democracy which is supposed to be a good thing.

@BenCollins - The answer below is an opinion that the representative intended to use the term as the racial pejorative.

An «Uncle Tom» is a pejorative generally used by one black against another.

The word «stimulus» now has a clear pejorative tone in American politics, such that no supporter of short term stimulus legislation can actually use the word (hence we get Obama's «jobs bill»).

Blairite was once a term used to describe those associated with the right of the Labour Party — not necessarily in a pejorative sense.

Thanks, On the Internazionale point, the intention was just to make the rhetorical point that «immigrants» only seems to get used generically as a pejorative term, eg in crime reporting, etc..

The U-turn, as such, is little more than an illogical pejorative that defines the position of those of us who use it (guilty), rather than defining the target of the pejorative.

The term «teabagger» is slang (typically used in the pejorative sense) to refer to those that associate themselves with the Tea Party, which is a movement primarily (but not exclusively) associated with the Republican Party in the United States.

It is frequently used by opponents as a pejorative synonym for the more general «animal testing».

Many of the media outlets targeted by the Trump administration are labelled as liberal which is a term used in the USA a pejorative by non-liberal voters.

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

«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.

The tension between science and the public has flared up in recent times, easily seen in how the appellation «elite» was used as a pejorative during recent elections.

You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance.

But I've never gotten the sense that Ebert was using the term as a pejorative, either.