Sentence examples for pejorative name from inspiring English sources

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They called me a reasonably pejorative name".

To these peoples, Anasazi is both a foreign and a pejorative name for their forebears.

The name played on the association of AIDS with the plagues of the apocalypse, and on the vulgar use of yegua: "it's a name like sow, like bitch; it's a pejorative name for a woman," Lemebel said.

Sue Silver, former president of the El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission, a volunteer nonprofit group, said the pejorative name had come into usage in some quarters in the 1920s.

In an open letter to more than 120 MPs who asked for the broadcaster to use the term Daesh instead, Lord Hall rejected using a "pejorative name coined in Arabic by its enemies".

But in Russia, where they still are recalled by the pejorative name anonimki, the unnamed complaint remains a symbol to many of the power of the state to destroy lives almost on a whim.

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They call us pejorative names.

But French "subsidiaries" are either non-existent, hidden or given slightly pejorative names, like "diffusion" line.

And in some social media, open forum, bragging about the command and control capabilities for Daesh," said Carlisle, using the pejorative Arabic name for the Islamic State. .

She uses Nortony as a pejorative and name-drops the Harvard rare-books library.

But the PCC said that the clause related only to individuals, and that neither the headline nor the article contained prejudicial or pejorative references to named individuals.

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