adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a derogatory/pejorative term (= one that is insulting or disapproving )
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‘Pinko’ is a derogatory term for someone with socialist ideas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
term
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However, we should be wary lest use of such an emotive and pejorative term leads to premature dismissal of legitimate arguments.
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Permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term .
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During the Industrial Revolution, many Birmingham goods were cheap to buy, but does cheapness justify the pejorative term worthless?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He used the word 'girl' in the pejorative sense when referring to the women who worked for him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A properly planned and monitored investment programme is needed, but ill informed and pejorative assertions are unhelpful.
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And so it acquired its contemporary, pejorative connotation of idle chatter.
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During the Industrial Revolution, many Birmingham goods were cheap to buy, but does cheapness justify the pejorative term worthless?
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However, we should be wary lest use of such an emotive and pejorative term leads to premature dismissal of legitimate arguments.
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I was, and this is the most pejorative label in all of caddying, a bag carrier.
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The new terminology will quickly become pejorative .
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The psychiatric model added other, more pejorative , associations with overweight.