Words similar to pejorative

Example sentences for: pejorative

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Consider those who would give the gentle and intelligent killer whale a less pejorative name.
"Liberal" became a pejorative, synonymous with weakness, taxation, overspending--and blind obeisance to welfare cheats and Negroes.
And sometimes ironically or defiantly people will call themselves by names intended to be pejorative or downright insulting, as when African Americans call each other nigger or Jews of Odessa call one of their folk heroes Poltorazhida `Yid-and-a-half.
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.
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.