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pejorative

/pi-jawr-uh-tiv, -jor-, pej-uh-rey-, pee-juh-/US // pɪˈdʒɔr ə tɪv, -ˈdʒɒr-, ˈpɛdʒ əˌreɪ-, ˈpi dʒə- //UK // (pɪˈdʒɒrətɪv, ˈpiːdʒər-) //

轻蔑,轻蔑的,轻蔑性,贬义

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a pejorative form or word, as poetaster.

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Examples

  • The Senate bill, meanwhile, makes it a felony for many people to engage in “vote harvesting,” a pejorative term for picking up another person’s absentee ballot and taking it to a polling place.

  • The ridicule goes back to the very origins of the word ham, a pejorative that professional radio operators at the beginning of the 20th century used to single out amateurs with “ham-fisted” Morse-code skills.

  • The entire Lifeline program has come under fire from opponents starting during the Obama administration, when it gained the pejorative nickname, “Obama phone.”

  • This is true not in a pejorative sense but in a statistical one, as in the average between high and low.

  • At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless.

  • In Spanish the word joke (broma) is not at all pejorative, it is playful.

  • The late Andrew Breitbart even offered a $100,000 reward for audio or video of Lewis being called a racial pejorative.

  • “A Billy Collins poem” has even been used as a pejorative term in certain workshop settings.

  • Grossman is quick to point out that he does not consider the term “sheep” a pejorative.

  • He consistently uses "Jew" as a pejorative adjective instead of "Jewish."

  • But given its age and its purpose this ought not to be construed in the contemporary, pejorative sense.

  • This term is a pejorative which may be applied also to the exercise of our other senses.

  • Alternatively, Professor A. Dalzell points out to me that illa could have a pejorative sense.