pejorative

Now, as you know well, for many people, the very word “shortcut” is a pejorative.

It takes courage to be your true self when your identity has been used as an insult or a pejorative.

The Senate bill, meanwhile, makes it a felony for many people to engage in “vote harvesting,” a pejorative term for picking up another person’s absentee ballot and taking it to a polling place.

The ridicule goes back to the very origins of the word ham, a pejorative that professional radio operators at the beginning of the 20th century used to single out amateurs with “ham-fisted” Morse-code skills.

The entire Lifeline program has come under fire from opponents starting during the Obama administration, when it gained the pejorative nickname, “Obama phone.”

At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless.

In Spanish the word joke (broma) is not at all pejorative, it is playful.

The late Andrew Breitbart even offered a $100,000 reward for audio or video of Lewis being called a racial pejorative.

“A Billy Collins poem” has even been used as a pejorative term in certain workshop settings.

Grossman is quick to point out that he does not consider the term “sheep” a pejorative.

He consistently uses "Jew" as a pejorative adjective instead of "Jewish."

But given its age and its purpose this ought not to be construed in the contemporary, pejorative sense.

This term is a pejorative which may be applied also to the exercise of our other senses.

Alternatively, Professor A. Dalzell points out to me that illa could have a pejorative sense.