Words similar to pejorative

Example sentences for: pejorative

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One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.
The Grauniad (Guardian: the pejorative is said to reflect something wrong with its proofreading).
Patronizing or pejorative: He's just a simple (dumb) fxxx . Hello, little fxxx!
North's counsel, objected to the term, declaring it to be pejorative.
But there was an earlier sense in that, for as little time as a decade, it has been shown to have been used in Australia, still as a pejorative term but with much less definition, more as a label for someone who is in some way disruptive of social mores, a public nuisance whose field of activity was left open.