Sentence examples for pejorative appellation from inspiring English sources

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Usually they come from unfamiliar addresses like "Debt Collectors" or Naughty Girl @hotmail.com, and often they single you out by name in the subject line, as in "Amy, Worried About Your Health?" Such e-mail, best known by its pejorative appellation, spam, has been annoying Internet users for years.

But Orly Taitz, an attorney who is the most prominent face of the birther movement, has disavowed the word, writing in a legal motion that is part of a case challenging Obama's authority as commander in chief that birther is "a pejorative appellation" that is "often coupled with even more colorful epithets".

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Whereas the show's Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is dubbed a "Bastard" on account of his troubled parentage, in Bolton's case the appellation comes with the more pejorative, Anglo-Saxon connotations: he really is a wrong 'un.

The tension between science and the public has flared up in recent times, easily seen in how the appellation "elite" was used as a pejorative during recent elections.

"Is 'placid' pejorative?

Stop pejorative thinking.

What a wonderful appellation!

A pejorative finitude.

The appellation isn't precise.

"It's tremendously pejorative".

The term is pejorative.

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