Sentence examples for be pejorative when it from inspiring English sources

"Teenager" need not be pejorative when it comes to lyricism.

The name muckraker was pejorative when used by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in his speech of April 14, 1906; he borrowed a passage from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, which referred to "the Man with the Muckrake…who could look no way but downward".

In many cases such language would not be pejorative, it would be entirely accurate.

Marino's imitators carried his stylistic conceits to excess, and the term came ultimately to be pejorative by the end of the 17th century when it died out along with the Baroque period of which it was a part.

"It's assumed to be pejorative," he says.

If it is, the term should cease to be pejorative.

Mercer told Hudson, when interviewed by her, that he did not mean to be pejorative.

Elsewhere, the term might be pejorative.

I don't say that to be pejorative.

It's not like "girl" is pejorative, at all, but sometimes it feels like it is because of The World.

"I don't like it, I think it's pejorative," he said.