Sentence examples for pejorative adjective from inspiring English sources

Why is it that we almost never see the noun "atheist" without some pejorative adjective like "dyspeptic," which Judith Shulevitz shoehorns into her review of "The Faith Instinct" (Dec. 27)?

But basic as a pejorative adjective for women really happened around 2010, with Lil Wayne's I'm Not a Human Being – verbatim quotes not breakfast-table appropriate, but essentially his point is that he drives around in cars and gets a lot of blowjobs, and therefore is not basic, and Kreayshawn's 2010 single Gucci Gucci.

After all, there's a reason why the word 'robotic' is a pejorative adjective.

Often portrayed as the quintessential "cave-man," they are the only fossil hominin for whom a pejorative adjective has become part of the English language.

A pejorative adjective nicely glides the concept toward a cliff when it's time to take a vote on it.

Carr uses several pejorative adjectives to describe Barnes' apartment including sad, grubby, dirty, dreary and humble but note that this implies that the digital revolution is dominated by people "on laptops who have no furniture".

Cursing in Jamaica, or tracing, involves trading very personal insults that often include strings of pejorative adjectives about a person's appearance, escalating to insults about political affiliations, and possibly invoking the names of local criminals to threaten the other party into submission.[8].

Remove the prism of Project Fear, and the same kind of practical questions come with a far less pejorative set of adjectives.

Asked about the beatings, she said: "Anyone can come up with an adjective, a pejorative.

I firmly believe that the best companies, in Adam Smith's terms, can also be "good" and that your pejorative use of that adjective is misguided.Sir Christopher BlandChairman, BT GroupLondonSIR – The idea that unregulated capitalism automatically generates social benefit is nonsense.

But to some Republicans the adjective "European" has pejorative connotations.