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Example sentences for: pejorative

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In his Preface, Thirty-five argues that the pejorative attitudes towards women derive from the criminal's “assessment of every woman according to her eligibility as a mistress” (p.
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.
Likewise, Pazzo may have originally been hacked off the end of Giacopazzo , a pejorative form of Jacob ; but it also means lunatic.
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.
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.