ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PEJORATIVE
From French péjoratif, from Late Latin pējōrātus, past participle of pējōrāre to make worse, from Latin pēior worse.
5 QUOTES WITH «PEJORATIVE»
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I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.
I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEJORATIVE»
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Pejorative Sense Development in English: I ...
CHAPTER V. Pejorative Sense*development. A special chapter on pejorative
sense*development does not mean that there is a kind of sense*development
apart from the general lines along which words change their significa* tion. The
first ...
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Discourse Markers: Descriptions and Theory
Pejorative. Connotation: A. Case. of. Japanese. Satoko. Suzuki. Macalester.
College. 1. Introduction. The targets of this paper are Japanese expressions X
nante, X nanka, X nado, X dano, X toka, and X tari, which may be translated to
English ...
Andreas H. Jucker, Yael Ziv, 1998
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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition : Universal Human Concepts ...
In linguistic literature, names in -ka are generally regarded as pejorative (except
in dialectal use; cf., for example, Bondaletov and Danilina 1970:198). Some
books for the general reader go as far as condemning it as ideologically unsound
.
Department of Linguistics Australian National University Anna Wierzbicka Reader, 1992
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Terrorism and Homeland Security
The PKK represents the pejorative nature of terrorism. When the terrorist label is
applied to a group like the PKK, the whole movement is questioned. Kurds have
long suffered at the hands of their neighbors. The Iranians have slaughtered ...
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A History of the Spanish Language
However, both suffixes have been frequent throughout the history of Spanish and
remain fairly highly productive. -ole is almost always pejorative in tone and '
augments' the concept expressed by the base to which it is attached:/resccte '
cheeky ...
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Activist Business Ethics
The employee will never denounce his superiors if society continues to treat him
as a whistle-blower (pejorative connotation in the business world), a tattletale or
sneak (pejorative connotation at school), an informer (pejorative connotation ...
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Frames of Protest: Social Movements and the Framing Perspective
Applied to social movement studies, we can see instances of framing at the SMO
level and, if we looked closely, we would see them in interaction at the
membership level. THE PEJORATIVE LEGACY OF IDEOLOGY Ideology arose in
a ...
Hank Johnston, John A. Noakes, 2005
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The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
In such contexts, the past tense as described above is distinguished from the
others by being called the simple past. See more at perfect tense and verbs,
principal parts of. pathogen See germ. pejorative / perjorative The fact that
English has ...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005
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Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of ...
The quantitative ratio is approximately the following: bases adding only the
meliorative and ambivalent suffixes are to bases capable of also adding
pejorative suffixes and to bases adding only pejorative suffixes in a ratio of 10.2:8
:1.
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Film and Knowledge: Essays on the Integration of Images and ...
In fact, given Freeland's criticisms of non-pejorative conceptions of ideology, I am
going to have a hard time finding anything new of a critical nature to say about
the non-pejorative notion of ideology. Ostensibly, Shaw's objections to the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEJORATIVE»
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Humans episode 7 review
... from the way they are viewed by human beings ('dollies' being a telling pejorative), to the way that the Elster set claimed to have learned. «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»
Will Intellectual Combat Ever Top William Buckley vs. Gore Vidal? A …
I had never heard anyone say “goddamn” on TV before, or even “queer,” at least in that specialized pejorative sense. I was a “teen for Gene” ... «New York Magazine, Jul 15»
Why public servants should stop wearing black to work
"Cardigan" can be a pejorative term used to describe someone with laidback work ethic, stemming from the outdated notion that a public ... «The Canberra Times, Jul 15»
Don't believe the #cuckservative lie
The pejorative du jour on social media these days is “cuckservative.” The word is a combination of cuckold, i.e. the husband of an adulteress, ... «Hot Air, Jul 15»
The legal erasure of black families
... and insultingly pejorative judgment: the clutching of a purse, the oversimplification of an instruction, the spontaneous discipline of a stranger's ... «Al Jazeera America, Jul 15»
Iraqi Forces Clash With Islamic State Militants at Anbar University
... the remains of Daesh and dismantling bombs and clear roads," the statement said, using a pejorative term for the radical Sunni insurgents. «NDTV, Jul 15»
Celebrate Liberty Month: The 5 W's regarding the need for H.R. 9 …
The pejorative “patent troll” captures too many different types of business models that are important to today's innovation economy—inventions ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
JLP and PNP locked in near statistical dead heat amidst harsh …
Before anyone gets excessively anxious about these findings and starts to ascribe all sorts of pejorative nouns toward the 89 per cent of those ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
Readers raise objections over Trump campaign coverage
“Those terms are pejorative and frivolous and are meant to elicit a negative or dismissive response,” she said. Including them, she said, made ... «Toledo Blade, Jul 15»
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Cuddalore is headquarters of the district only in a pejorative sense. The District administration is in a state of limbo. Now that it has come under ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
