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单词 pejorative
释义
pejorative
adjective
formal
uk
/pɪˈdʒɒr.ə.tɪv/us
/pɪˈdʒɔːr.ə.t̬ɪv/
expressingdisapproval, orsuggestingthat something is not good or is of noimportance:
贬抑的，贬损的
Makesurestudentsrealizethat "fat" is a pejorative word.一定要让学生明白 fat（肥胖）是贬损词。
It comes asquiteashockto stillhearajudgedescribingachildas "illegitimate", with all the pejorativeovertonesof that word.令人大为震惊的是，尽管“私生子”一词带有强烈的贬义，但现在仍能听到法官称某个孩子为私生子。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Critical & uncomplimentary
  • acidulous
  • astringency
  • astringently
  • barbed
  • be all very wellidiom
  • censorious
  • deprecating
  • derogatory
  • disapproving
  • pointed
  • pointedly
  • self-criticism
  • self-damning
  • shade
  • snark
  • snidely
  • snideness
  • sniffy
  • tar
  • throw shadeidiom
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(Definition ofpejorativefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

pejorative| American Dictionary

pejorative
adjective
fml
us
/pɪˈdʒɔr·ə·t̬ɪv,-ˈdʒɑr-/
insulting,disapproving, orsuggestingthat something is not good or is of noimportance:
Is "Yankee" a pejorativeterm?
Note:
  • said of words
(Definition ofpejorativefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpejorative

pejorative
It is not surprising thatpejorativeadverbs such as terribly or dreadfully should collocate with wrong only.
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Apejorativeterm invented by taxi drivers to describe a person who drives his private car instead of employing a chauffer.
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Although sometimes referred to as 'absent fathers', this term is in many cases an inappropriate andpejorativedescription of their parenting.
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Most of those so labelled reject all of these names as incorrect or evenpejorative, but there is much discussion of what to use instead.
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And although such responses would necessarily be ad hoc, they would not be in anypejorativesense of that expression.
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We have a set ofpejorativeterms which we apply to women who publicly contradict the standard view of the female temperament.
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Philosophical discourse does not always register thispejorativeconnotation of fideism.
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It highlights the linguistic aspect of this process, detailing the historical transformations in the meaning of such words as mag-anito, which becamepejorative.
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Because most of this imagery waspejorative, the ideas which were circulated in this way, were negative ones.
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In so doing, they are concerned to avoid hackneyed orpejorativephrases.
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As apejorativelabel, ' sumpsimus ' does not seem to have featured at all in anti-evangelical discourse of the 1530s and 1540s.
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This term is used, withoutpejorativeovertones, to describe the methods and depth of the group's educational programme.
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The word ' occult', although having a primary meaning of ' hidden', has apejorativeimplication when applied to religious matters.
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While a notion of policing might be regarded aspejorative, this is not the intention.
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Thepejorativeassociations of the term rhetoric express suspicion that people are inappropriately taken in by language which is anything but disembodied and dispassionate.
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