I am not using the word pejoratively. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the pejorative affix -ling. From Dictionary.com.
Outsiders sometimes use this term pejoratively, but locals are fiercely proud of the region's industrial identity. From Wordnik.com. [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference
Great, namecalling (I am assuming you use that term pejoratively). From Wordnik.com. [Joseph A. Palermo: It's Time to Resuscitate the FCC] Reference
Lots of people use that term pejoratively but really don't know what it means. From Wordnik.com. [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference
So why do I use the term pejoratively?. From Wordnik.com. [blurbomat.com] Reference
What a court would be were it to do that is being what is called pejoratively by some. From Wordnik.com. [TalkLeft] Reference
(I hope the actual innocent retards forgive me for using this innocent word pejoratively). From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
I don't use that word pejoratively, but listening to people, talking to people, feeding off of that. From Wordnik.com. [Strom Thurmond & the Politics of Southern Change] Reference
As a result of last week's turmoil, they are that much closer to what George W Bush's aides used to call pejoratively, I fear. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I don’t want to “ASSume” here, but I hope you didn’t mean that term pejoratively because that won’t work with me sister. From Wordnik.com. [Your Deal] Reference
In other words, they -- they are kind of pejoratively true. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2006] Reference
Creationists either use the term pejoratively (” evolution is only a theory”), or they misapply the term to creationism. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 20, 2006] Reference
The term is often applied pejoratively to unwed mothers. From Wordnik.com. [News Outlets Face Increasing Scrutiny in Campaign] Reference
You'll notice that I used the word "amateur" pejoratively. From Wordnik.com. [What They Do for Love] Reference
This is an extremely neutered version of ID, and I don't mean that pejoratively. From Wordnik.com. [A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers] Reference
And I don't say that pejoratively; I'm just saying that this is my personal view. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Transcript Of Race Meeting] Reference
But I also think that you can say someone has an agenda and mean it pejoratively. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Ewert’s Roanoke support?] Reference
Often “classicism” is used pejoratively to refer to academic, conventional art. From Wordnik.com. [CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE] Reference
I do not mean it pejoratively when I say that the military has a strong cultic dimension. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Critics — led by Llewellyn — pejoratively tagged this label on the judges of the period. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
The term is used pejoratively and usually involves a requirement for highly improbable causes. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy Theories vs. Conspiracies and the Case of the World Trade Center] Reference
When he stepped off the rescue ship ... it was an operatic scene, and I don't mean that pejoratively. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Cricket's detractors (Americans, I mean you) have often wondered pejoratively what the point of the game is. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket's Competitive Test] Reference
Napoleon should have reciprocated with intense, hos - tility, and should have pejoratively labeled the group. From Wordnik.com. [IDEOLOGY] Reference
They have attacked what are pejoratively called "neopopulists" people who say the middle class is under siege. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Inequality Is Real (Bad)] Reference
Immigration restrictionists argue that they object only to those who are undocumented pejoratively, the "illegals.". From Wordnik.com. [Untangling Immigration's Double Helix] Reference
ROBERTS: So end-of-life care, this provision in the House bill is described many ways, most pejoratively as death panels. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2009] Reference
Franz Josef frowned; the incident had been pejoratively reported in the Berlin press, as the embassy there had informed him. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
His was the original “bleeding heart,” yet I am afraid he would be described pejoratively by many today as a “do-gooder.”. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Whitford: Get The IRS Out of My Church] Reference
Robert Owen and John Stuart Mill used it pejoratively in the French-influenced sense to refer to the evils of capitalist competition. From Wordnik.com. [TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM] Reference
The media has been reluctant to take the new bank seriously, and some continue to call the institution, pejoratively, "Chavez's bank.". From Wordnik.com. [Mark Weisbrot: A Bank of Their Own] Reference
It is high time we reflected: after all what is a squatted area (or “invaded” as pejoratively spelled out by our brilliant media)??. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Brazil: Outrage at violent São Paulo eviction] Reference
We speak pejoratively of an - thropomorphic analogies which present no problems to us because they depend on unacceptable assump - tions. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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