Example sentences for: pejorative

How can you use “pejorative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The French adopted the habit as an intensifier of musculine nouns, proper and improper, and this too became mostly pejorative, as in mouchard sneak or informer (from mouche fly), and froussard coward (from frousse fright), and bastard , a trenchant abbreviation of fils de bast pack-saddle child.

  • "Liberal" became a pejorative, synonymous with weakness, taxation, overspending--and blind obeisance to welfare cheats and Negroes.

  • There is no authentic dialect in the ex-British Caribbean, not even in the sense of a pejorative corruption of a parent tongue (as in Pennsylvania Dutch, for instance).

  • Some Mexican-Americans refer to themselves as "Chicanos ," a pejorative term from the 1920s for lower-class Mexican immigrants that was embraced in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Mexican-Americans seeking a new political identity.

  • A cheese head; an easily confused or misled individual; one “short on the dollar”; scatterbrained; [pejorative, not hostile, implication]: He'd be just fxxxhead enough to buy that line of who-shot john.


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