Example sentences for: pejorative

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

  • The stereotype was so pervasive and pejorative that even at RPI, one seldom actually saw a belt-mounted slide rule, a pocket protector, or glasses repaired with tape.

  • Patronizing or pejorative: He's just a simple (dumb) fxxx . Hello, little fxxx!

  • The English term for this process is stereotype , which has acquired a similar pejorative meaning.

  • ' This pejorative development was not extraordinary, because the word ordinary had itself taken on a debased sense.

  • 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.


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