How to Use pejorative in a Sentence

pejorative

1 of 2 noun

• The concept of entitlement has been cast about as a pejorative for some time.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2020
• But Brooks never imagined the pejorative could be stricken from its use in the realm of science.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2021
• There's no reason to expect anything about this to be normal and that's not a pejorative.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 10 July 2020
• Her name has become a symbol, a pejorative, a way to demean and dismiss.
  — Dallas News, 28 May 2020
• Kooky is a word thrown around a lot to describe the new Netflix show — but, no, it’s not meant as a pejorative.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 23 Nov. 2022
• No one in Anderson uses the term Redskins as a pejorative, or as a way to get a cheap laugh.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 June 2018
• Some say it’s a pejorative and insist everyone has a right to draw on their faith and values to try to influence public policy.
  — Peter Smith and Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
• Yet this, too, feels somehow in keeping with the folk spirit—the reappropriation of a pejorative, the making new of an old idea.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2017
• Being a game manager, by the way, should never be considered a pejorative.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• The term later became a pejorative for African Americans.
  — Chauncey Alcorn Cnn Business, CNN, 18 June 2020
• All the [pejorative] exist in Hugo, Minnesota, and it’s right here.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Americans do not care much for bureaucracy, to the extent that the word bureaucracy itself functions as a pejorative.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 15 Oct. 2019
• In mainstream media, outright slurs are forbidden (though not everyone abides) and anything that smells pejorative is called out.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2012
• Among practitioners, the word is considered a pejorative.
  — Dieu-Nalio Chery, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• So strong are the negative associations that the word itself has become a pejorative for someone deceitful or disloyal.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 8 July 2022
• In back-and-forths among Gruden and Allen and some of their friends, Gruden seems more than elated to throw around slang terms for a woman’s genitalia as pejorative.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• Your character said this to Maverick as a pejorative, but did Cruise’s reputation precede him in the best possible way?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
• In fact, his ties to Shaker Heights are often used as a pejorative compared to the rough upbringing of his method-acting peers such as Marlon Brando.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
• But plenty of people mentioned the company in the pejorative — saying their practices were the result of introducing a profit motive into the correctional industry.
  — Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
• Okay, better, but wasn’t there something romantic and pompous—silly, to employ a favorite pejorative—in the poem’s very conception?
  — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• Another admonition might be appropriate: Do not use a pejorative when naming your work.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• His classmates snickered and called him indio—Indian—a pejorative for anyone with non-European blood.
  — Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
• Some say it’s a derogatory word for female anatomy, while others say the origin wasn’t negative and was simply a way to refer to Native women, but the word took on new meaning as white settlers used it as a pejorative.
  — Emilly Davis, azcentral, 19 June 2020
• Analytics has become a catchall pejorative applied to any bold, unconventional decision a coach might make—especially one that fails.
  — Alex Kirshner, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2022
• Some Sonorans, however, consider the term a pejorative, preferring instead tortillas de agua or tortillas grandes.
  — Patricia Escárcega, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• The man, Jack Shunnarah, of Hodgenville, Ky., laughed awkwardly as other men resting against the wall of the gas station repeated the pejorative.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
• After Republicans began throwing that term around as a pejorative, Mr. Obama embraced it.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2017
• The militants confiscated their homes, marking them with the Arabic letter nun, for Nasrani, a word meaning Christian that many consider a pejorative.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• Where Baldwin saw the degrading American tradition of blackface, Loretan saw only a costume within the make-believe world of carnival—an imitation with intentions more philanthropic than pejorative.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
• Jogging was a huge fad in the 1970s during the original recreational running boom, but the word eventually became a condescending pejorative within competitive, race-centric running culture.
  — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022

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pejorative

2 of 2 adjective

• This is a small grill, but that's in no way to be taken in the pejorative sense.
  — Steven John, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Aging is something to be aware of, and not in a pejorative way.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 12 June 2017
• Rick also finds a bunch of poor white trash (that’s not a pejorative.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Oct. 2017
• Like in the pejorative sense, but just to be more conservative.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2021
• Of course, the choices of just what to talk about can be seen as pejorative, but please know that is not my intention.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Houston Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2020
• Then a reader who had worked with Navajo and Pueblo tribes wrote in to complain about the pejorative use of the term.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• There’s even a pejorative industry term for it: the money mark.
  — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• That era has been damned with a pejorative label: the Gilded Age.
  — Phil Gramm, wsj.com, 7 May 2023
• People do need to know, not in a pejorative way, not in a finger pointing way, but just look at the data.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2021
• Luck made a selfish decision, but that is no longer a pejorative.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• So to say this is 11th hour is not a -- is not pejorative.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• In a familiar pattern, people subjected to pejorative terms can seize on them and flaunt them as a badge of pride.
  — John McIntyre, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
• First, there is a long history of classifying emotion in a pejorative way and then blaming that on the uterus.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Their tactics worked and, over time, the pejorative meaning of charlatan stuck.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• Wilde ended up in Reading Jail and died an early death, but the use of the word as a pejorative term long outlived him.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2020
• Soon, their coach earned a slew of pejorative nicknames like Nuthouse and Outhouse.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2022
• This is not a pejorative term, but the ordinariness of this family.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 23 Nov. 2021
• Its critics are right that neoliberalism has multiple meanings and can be used in a way that is more pejorative than precise.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2018
• Despite the fact that many of them describe him as awkward, geeky, stupid, and other pejorative phrases, all of it is said with the utmost respect and love.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 24 June 2021
• Amazon declined to comment about products on its site with pejorative statements about Alexa.
  — Alexa Juliana Ard, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 2021
• But elsewhere, the word has taken on a decidedly pejorative meaning.
  — Peter Brodie, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• This is a pejorative term of the intellectuals for a middle-class conservative.
  — Clare Booth Luce, National Review, 13 Feb. 2020
• Emolument may indeed be a completely non-pejorative term derived from the Latin word for a miller’s honest fee.
  — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2017
• The most thoroughly pejorative of these suffixes is -aster.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
• If a distinguished Oxford historian can use beggar, then to my mind there is nothing pejorative about the word.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
• Another called Si’s wife a pejorative slur used to describe a Chinese person.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Some social-media users suggested that floating letters in the video clip briefly spelled a pejorative German word for people of color.
  — Christoph Rauwald, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2020
• Not that the yoots and their pejorative for intransigence, intolerance and tech phobia among their elders is entirely wrong, mind you.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Often, people in the past who practiced things like magic, herbalism, and healing didn't call themselves witches, as the term was seen as pejorative.
  — Sarah Lyons, Teen Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• In the past 50 years the number of pejorative monger terms has proliferated.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021

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