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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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This amazing creation is known by many names, many of them pejoratives, but is commonly called "the media. The movement against the income tax has lately adopted one of the tropes that define an on-the-rise minority in modern America: Its members want to be called what they call themselves--the "tax honesty" movement--and not be slapped with the pejoratives that most people have known them by (if aware of them at all). On the other hand, Skinner's enthusiasm for neo-Ciceronian humanism is marred by the recurring anachronisms and pejoratives "schoolmen" and "scholastics" to designate invidiously a rather diverse body of university-trained theologians and jurists, and "scholasticism" as a blanket term to characterize their complex and varied ideas. |
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