Words similar to pejorative

Example sentences for: pejorative

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' Inuit were earlier known by Europeans as `Eskimos'--a pejorative, roughly meaning `eaters of raw meat,' applied to them by INDIAN groups.
Likewise, Pazzo may have originally been hacked off the end of Giacopazzo , a pejorative form of Jacob ; but it also means lunatic.
"Liberal" became a pejorative, synonymous with weakness, taxation, overspending--and blind obeisance to welfare cheats and Negroes.
WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.
By the same token, the sober observer of language ought not allow his emotions to get in the way of his cool evaluation of the facts (as he sees them), and a label like Illiterate has pejorative overtones and undertones inappropriate to the detached, scholarly view.