Usage examples (11)

• But basically, modern and uniform codes were mealymouthed or at best meliorative.
• Calling them special interests sounds pejorative, and independent group sounds meliorative.
• Israel's critics are often the same people who spent years denouncing George W. Bush's antagonistic attitude and are thrilled with Barack Obama's meliorative rhetoric.
• To our mind, the best way to answer that question is to ponder this one: What evidence is there that Obama has had a meliorative effect on Jeremiah Wright or other...