Pejorative Sentence Examples

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  • Using pejorative words to describe young people makes them feel less important.

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  • The pejorative overtones of the lecture made the students feel terrible.

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  • Some medical terms were clearly pejorative and have since been abandoned.

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  • The word clumsy has a pejorative meaning.

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  • The pejorative term "wasteland" is proposed to be replaced by the term "urban commons."

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  • It could be a fairly neutral term, but as the editorial proceeds it becomes quite pejorative with many negative overtones.

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  • A pejorative sense is exactly what brought the word back into use in the mid-nineteenth century.

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  • The pejorative connotation of an optical illusion is a visual malfunction.

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  • The label "evil" was neither random nor a purely pejorative act.

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  • The abundance of animal imagery, most of the negative or pejorative, express a profoundly pessimistic world view.

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  • Myths are deadly serious Modern mythologists use the term ' myth ' without any pejorative overtones.

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