Sentence examples for pejorative use from inspiring English sources

Perhaps then its gendered pejorative use will decline.

He chafes good-naturedly at the term "missionary", though more at its pejorative use.

"The pejorative use of the term 'Seabrook' rather than 'Mr. Seabrook' was a blatant attempt by the government to demean Councilman Seabrook in the eyes of the jury," the lawyers wrote.

I firmly believe that the best companies, in Adam Smith's terms, can also be "good" and that your pejorative use of that adjective is misguided.Sir Christopher BlandChairman, BT GroupLondonSIR – The idea that unregulated capitalism automatically generates social benefit is nonsense.

The pejorative use of the phrase "conspiracy theorists" is nothing more than an attempt to marginalize anyone who disagrees with the "official story" about anything the government or media claim to be true.

So strong is the temptation to explain our minds by evolutionary "Just So Stories," Stephen Jay Gould argued in 1978, that a lack of hard evidence for them is frequently overlooked (his may well have been the first pejorative use of Kipling's term).

Five years ago, he says, "techie" was "pejorative – used to describe someone who was geeky".

The "F" is short for flamingants, a pejorative used against Flemish nationalists, which they've since adopted as a sobriquet.

Trash them, some would say, as in Eurotrash, the pejorative used (too loosely) to condemn all productions that seem driven by a director's irreverent agenda.

Ms. Mealy acknowledged that the measure was unenforceable, but she argued that it would carry symbolic power against the pejorative uses of the word.

Second, "trickle-down" is not a theory but a pejorative used by those on the left to describe a viewpoint they oppose.