Sentence examples for pejorative interpretation from inspiring English sources

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William F. Buckley was among the first to give the word "liberal" a pejorative interpretation, but it was the wordsmith William Safire writing for Spiro Agnew who in 1969 elevated it to a political talking point in his famous speech that opened the war against the press during Richard Nixon's secret battles in Vietnam.

Rotating the ink blots vertically makes us see a lot more, um, private areas of the human body on the canvas, reminding us "there is no form so 'innocent' (or abstract) that it can ever avoid the corruption of a pejorative interpretation," Krauss wrote in an essay titled "Carnal Knowledge".

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The social interpretation from consumer literature tends to be pejorative in nature, and the study title was likely to be particularly discouraging to women who were above their healthy weight range [ 10, 11].

Thus, any interpretation that differed from the official one was necessarily "heretical" in the new, pejorative sense of the word.

"Is 'placid' pejorative?

The term is pejorative.

A pejorative finitude.

"It's tremendously pejorative".

MACHIAVELLIAN is usually a pejorative term.

There is nothing inherently pejorative about it.

Elsewhere, the term might be pejorative.

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