Sentence examples for pejorative implication from inspiring English sources

Freud and psychoanalysts who have followed his approach defined narcissism in technical terms that related to the original libido theory present in the early days of psychoanalysis; the term in no way was meant to carry the pejorative implication that Lasch assigned to it.

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

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.

For me, this definition doesn't quite live up to the pejorative implication I associate with the term, so I'll quote Wikipedia's entry too: "Slacktivism can be defined as the act of showing support for a cause but only truly being beneficial to the egos of people participating in this so-called activism".

And while the title, of course, carries with it negative connotations, the pejorative implication should be understood as being directed at the song's narrator and not as a gender-specific reference.

"The description of east Jerusalem as 'occupied east Jerusalem' is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful," Brandis told the Senate estimates hearing.

"The description of East Jerusalem as 'occupied' East Jerusalem is a term freighted with pejorative implications which is neither appropriate nor useful," Brandis told a Senate estimates hearing.

He told a Senate estimates committee the term "occupied" East Jerusalem was "freighted with pejorative implications which is neither appropriate nor useful" and Australia would not "describe areas of negotiation in such judgmental language".

Without any pejorative implications, it is my impression that beyond this fresh interdisciplinary perspective, there is little in this manuscript that is genuinely novel.

DSM-5 now includes "specifiers" for ASD, which is a useful starting point to delineate individual differences in autism spectrum conditions (ASC: hereafter we use this term as a preferred synonym for ASD, to avoid the pejorative implications of the word "disorder").

On the whole, the pejorative significance of breast axillary node metastases detected by immmunohistochemistry is debatable.