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- noun Plural form of
pejorative .
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Examples
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As examples, one need only read with astonishment, but not surprise, recent essays in The New York Times Book Review coining pejoratives such as "evolutionism" and "scientism" to critique the set of ideas that inform this edition of Edge.
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I travel to high schools and kids that tell me that they are called pejoratives and names and picked on because of their sexual orientation, that ` s violence.
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Mr. Stratton obviously intends for his readers to think that the pejoratives were our own words.
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The Talmudic sages had little tolerance for demeaning and vulgar speech; not only for the use of words that are pejoratives, but even for words which have become inherently crude.
Rabbi Joshua Hess: What The Talmud Says About Kobe Bryant's Foul Language Rabbi Joshua Hess 2011
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The Talmudic sages had little tolerance for demeaning and vulgar speech; not only for the use of words that are pejoratives, but even for words which have become inherently crude.
Rabbi Joshua Hess: What The Talmud Says About Kobe Bryant's Foul Language Rabbi Joshua Hess 2011
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They had let the facts, as they interpreted them, suggest certain pejoratives to the voters.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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They had let the facts, as they interpreted them, suggest certain pejoratives to the voters.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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The Talmudic sages had little tolerance for demeaning and vulgar speech; not only for the use of words that are pejoratives, but even for words which have become inherently crude.
Rabbi Joshua Hess: What The Talmud Says About Kobe Bryant's Foul Language Rabbi Joshua Hess 2011
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They had let the facts, as they interpreted them, suggest certain pejoratives to the voters.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Your expletives and pejoratives demonstrate that emotion dominates your behavior inlieu of reason, and that you have come to your closely held views predominantly through group think.
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