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pejorative adjective abusive, acrimonious, belittling, blackening, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, critical, cynical, damaging, decrying, defamatory, denigrating, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derogatory, detracting, disapproving, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disrespectful, faultfinding, harsh, injurious, insulting, irreverent, scornful, severe, slighting, smearing, spiteful, uncomplimentary, underestimating, unflattering, venomous, vilifying, vituperative See also: calumnious, derogatory, libelous How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As we transfer knowledge from the film to leading their organizations, we shift the conversation so our future leaders reflect upon their own commonalties and differences, helping them respect their differences from others, while becoming critical of those who would suppress differences or present some differences, for example, racial, gender, or class, negatively, stereotypically, or pejoratively. Comparable to Morrison's notion that blackness functions dialectically and pejoratively in bolstering constructions of whiteness, arguably, Gaines's use of the homosexual black man is analogous to the ways that Hemingway, Melville, and other white American male literary forefathers configured the Africanist presence as abject and other. On the one hand, he faithfully reports Amos's words to King Jeroboam II (seen more pejoratively, he tattles on him). |
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