Words similar to pejorative

Example sentences for: pejorative

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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.
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.
Consider those who would give the gentle and intelligent killer whale a less pejorative name.
Austin American Real Estatesman (American-Statesman; the pejorative reflects the Sun Belt migration that has sent Texas' housing market into a boom).
I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.