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
• 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
• 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
• But when used by non-Romani people, the G-word is a pejorative.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• So is hostility toward tourists, a word that has long been used as a pejorative in some contexts.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
• For some around me, being watched was certainly not a pejorative but the intent of their attire.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
• The r-word, initially, was meant to replace words that had become pejoratives.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
• 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
• 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
• Being a game manager, by the way, should never be considered a pejorative.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• But before long, the term had been repurposed by those outside of that initial community for use as a pejorative.
  — Mikelle Street, Them., 1 May 2025
• Now, Hank comes back to an America [where] just the word masculinity can be used as a pejorative.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Gallego is confident that none of the pejoratives affixed to Democrats—weak, feckless, timid—applies to him.
  — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Ideas like empire and spheres of influence were not anachronisms or pejoratives but descriptors of how geopolitics functions in practice.
  — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Production is consumption, and neither is a pejorative.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• 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
• His classmates snickered and called him indio—Indian—a pejorative for anyone with non-European blood.
  — Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Some Sonorans, however, consider the term a pejorative, preferring instead tortillas de agua or tortillas grandes.
  — Patricia Escárcega, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• 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
• In the 1990s, when Man U became serial winners, the term was more a pejorative and not something United fans would say.
  — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 July 2025
• 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
• At some point, the investments turned into investing itself, where purely financing finance (as abstract a phenomenon as there could be) leads to Lehman as a pejorative.
  — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Dominic Packer, a Lehigh University psychologist who has written about groupthink, told me that the term has become a useful pejorative.
  — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025

pejorative

2 of 2 adjective

• And that was not a pejorative term.
  — Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
• This is a small grill, but that's in no way to be taken in the pejorative sense.
  — Steven John, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Rick also finds a bunch of poor white trash (that’s not a pejorative.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Oct. 2017
• Aging is something to be aware of, and not in a pejorative way.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 12 June 2017
• But that pejorative term isn’t reserved only for those in pop or rock music.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2026
• Luck made a selfish decision, but that is no longer a pejorative.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Like in the pejorative sense, but just to be more conservative.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2021
• 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
• This is not a pejorative statement.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2026
• Not in the pejorative, party girl sense, but in a cool, chaotically chic way.
  — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 12 June 2026
• Their tactics worked and, over time, the pejorative meaning of charlatan stuck.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Soon, their coach earned a slew of pejorative nicknames like Nuthouse and Outhouse.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• Amazon declined to comment about products on its site with pejorative statements about Alexa.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• Barack Obama, in 2019, used it in a way that was kind of pejorative and dismissive.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 10 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These aren’t just NIMBY complaints—not in the pejorative sense, at least.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
• In the past 50 years the number of pejorative monger terms has proliferated.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
• In Beijing, that description is regarded not as pejorative but, rather, as the natural order of things.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2019
• 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, 20 May 2020
• The Amazigh are better known as Berbers, but that’s actually a pejorative name, derived from the word barbarian.
  — Terri Colby, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017