At one Christmas party, a magazine rep made a pejorative remark about my skin color.
Okay, to start off with, two disclaimers: first, I'm a big Sinatra fan, always have been, and secondly, I was too young to swear that this story isn't apocryphal, but if memory serves me right, sometime in 1980, one of my favorite disc jockeys at the time, Jonathan Schwartz, was suddenly taken off the air for making a pejorative remark about one of Sinatra's latest recordings.
Ipso has concluded that newspaper columnists should be free to make "pejorative" and "prejudicial" remarks about the Muslim faith or any other religion even if such remarks may cause offence to those who practise it.
Father Villani said he "never intended to be malicious or pejorative" in his remarks in the parish bulletin.
In Public Prosecutor v. Koh Song Huat Benjamin (2005), the accused was convicted under the Act for posting invective and pejorative anti-Muslim remarks on a blog and a forum on the Internet; and in Public Prosecutor v. Ong Kian Cheong and another (2009), a married couple were similarly convicted for distributing religious tracts that were considered seditious and objectionable to Muslims.
He also apologised in a speech before national Jewish leaders for using a pejorative term for Jews in remarks to a Washington Post reporter in 1984.
She remarked that your mother had become stylish, a pejorative term in her vocabulary, implying a self-indulgence that she shunned.
If you make pejorative references to a particular group or race, you are applying those remarks to every individual within that group or race".
"Being blind", he wrote, "how did she know she was the wrong sex?" When Trans Media Watch complained to the Sun about the remark, the paper accepted that it was tasteless but denied that it was prejudicial or pejorative.
