That's the derogatory noun usage of burnout, the insult, and yet that's the best way to describe the way I feel blown through when I think about games specifically.
for Retarded Children, jettisoned "retarded" because "the words 'retardation' and 'retarded' became pejorative, derogatory and demeaning in usage".
A few comments on the post itself cited the usage as derogatory, offensive and irresponsible, and a poll of the followers on my Facebook page about the term produced a heated debate 70-odd comments long about othering, objectification and just what constitutes offensive language when describing black people.
I didn't use a derogatory remark.
The word is all over The Toast, meanwhile, its usage sometimes jokey but never derogatory.
The takfir accusation (the lethal accusation of unbelief) is almost as old as Islam, but, in current usage, takfiris, Mr. Vane, is sharply derogatory, and it means Muslims who presume to kill Muslims.
"Teacher, mother, secret lover!" In common usage, "couch potato" has always been a derogatory phrase that implies a misdirection of one's passions.
Rains, Bonds's defense lawyer, said he thought Hoskins was the source for much of the derogatory information about Bonds, including details of suspected steroid usage, in the book "Game of Shadows" by the reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams of The Chronicle.
Though the connection with conspiracy theories appears to have begun with grassy-knoller (and, perhaps, mooner — the name for people who believe the moon landings were staged in Arizona), the derogatory force of -er has a long pedigree in common usage too, from mouth-breathers to knuckle-draggers.
General usage of these terms follows: Gărkomani is a derogatory term used to refer to the largest portion of the Slavic-speaking minority of Macedonia in Greece who self-identify as Greeks.
