pejorative

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• The Senate bill, meanwhile, makes it a felony for many people to engage in “vote harvesting,” a pejorative term for picking up another person’s absentee ballot and taking it to a polling place.

• The ridicule goes back to the very origins of the word ham, a pejorative that professional radio operators at the beginning of the 20th century used to single out amateurs with “ham-fisted” Morse-code skills.

• The entire Lifeline program has come under fire from opponents starting during the Obama administration, when it gained the pejorative nickname, “Obama phone.”

• This is true not in a pejorative sense but in a statistical one, as in the average between high and low.

• At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless.

• In Spanish the word joke (broma) is not at all pejorative, it is playful.

• The late Andrew Breitbart even offered a $100,000 reward for audio or video of Lewis being called a racial pejorative.

• “A Billy Collins poem” has even been used as a pejorative term in certain workshop settings.

• Grossman is quick to point out that he does not consider the term “sheep” a pejorative.

• He consistently uses "Jew" as a pejorative adjective instead of "Jewish."

• But given its age and its purpose this ought not to be construed in the contemporary, sense.