pejorative

The rules of the game go some thing like this: First, don't define progressive or if you do post a caricature with 'permissive',' a highly emotive and pejorative term in our present society.

The reader is reminded very early in the book of the importance of terminology with the introduction of 'Safer and Less Safe Terms', so for instance Gay and Lesbian are preferred terms and Homosexual is seen to be a pejorative term and apparently should not be used.

Douglas Melamed argue that "patent trolls" (a pejorative term for NPEs) are a symptom of specific problems with the patent system rather than a direct cause.

Sensationalism is valid if the victim is a revolutionary 'sudaca'," he added, using a pejorative term that is sometimes used in Spain to refer to Latin Americans.

And forget that pejorative term 'drone' and its association with remote killing: unmanned civil aircraft are to drones what a bread knife is to a bayonet; they merely share some technology.

Yes, but the Brown camp believes that "professor" is a pejorative term, because it refers to someone who is smart.

Critics throw around the pejorative term "limousine liberal," which implies viewing the chaos from a bubble.

Denounced as a "felool" -- a pejorative term used by Egyptians to describe old regime diehards -- Shafiq is abhorred by those who forced Mubarak to quit in February 2011.

Ratner left amid criticism of his use of a pejorative term for gay men in a question-and-answer session at a screening of his action comedy "Tower Heist," which opened last weekend and stars Murphy and Ben Stiller.

However, over there trailer park has become something of a pejorative term.