Sentence examples for has a pejorative implication from inspiring English sources

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"Sunset photography is the biggest cliche," says Umbrico. "That word has a pejorative implication, but I actually think a cliche can be really useful.

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"The very phrase in English," critic Kenneth Tynan once wrote, "has a pejorative ring".

The trouble with saying Broadway is it has a pejorative context.

In the cinema, "remake" has a pejorative overtone and is generally regarded as a lazy, opportunist or parasitic practice.

For many reasons, a prolonged stay in the ICU has a pejorative connotation for the intensivist physician.

In English, "bias" often has a pejorative connotation, implying that those who conduct the study prefer one scientific conclusion, rather than another.

The dissection of a system into many simple units in order to describe the behaviour of a complex structure in terms of the laws governing the elementary components is sometimes referred to, often with a pejorative implication, as reductionism.

AP said it rejected the term "denier" because deniers had complained that it had a "pejorative ring of Holocaust denier".

Tribe or "the T-word", as the cautious refer to it, can indeed have a pejorative colonial flavour, hinting at primitivity.

It had a pejorative use back then, said Edith Hall, professor of classics at King's College London.

However, such patients have a pejorative post-transplant prognosis when compared to patients who undergo transplantation with stable chronic liver disease.

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