pejorative sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpejorativeandsense
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pejorative
adjective
uk/pɪˈdʒɒr.ə.tɪv/us/pɪˈdʒɔːr.ə.t̬ɪv/
expressing disapproval, or suggesting that something is not good or is of ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofpejorativeandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpejorative sense
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And although such responses would necessarily be ad hoc, they would not be in anypejorativesenseof that expression.
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The ideological belief in legal neutrality is ideological in apejorativesense.
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Yet this negativity is not negative in apejorativesense.
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Once established, thepejorativesenseof ' quean' drove out its neutral senses.
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As against this view, it is possible to argue that the rhetoric of economics (in thepejorativesense, as lacking substance) has long been its rhetoric of positivism.
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He expresses his own and others' eminently reasonable concern that the word may carry such an emotional and whollypejorativesenseas to be irretrievably lost from the scholarly repertoire.
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A culturally biased view is parochial in thepejorativesense: it suffers from limitations that indicate a failure to appreciate different, equally valid perspectives, a kind of evaluative myopia.
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Moderator and mediator analyses are therefore exploratory, but not in apejorativesenseof that term.
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He therefore presents a static analysis, but in such a way that its complexities (in a thoroughlypejorativesensenow) are brought clearly to the fore.
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I do not think that there is any discrimination in thepejorativesensein which he used the word.
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I do not use the word colonialism in anypejorativesense.
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These are not speculators, at least in thepejorativesenseof that word.
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I do not use that phrase in anypejorativesense.
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It is usually used in a verypejorativesense.
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I do not say that in apejorativesense.
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I do not say this in apejorativesense.
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He described it as such in apejorativesense.
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They ought not to castigate other people by calling them in thepejorativesensea pressure group.
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I think it is incontestable that the word "commercial" has been used again and again in a stronglypejorativesense.
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