1) pejorative. Roget s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
...Tending or intending to belittle: deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, low, slighting, uncomplimentary....
2) pejorative. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Tending to make or become worse. 2. Disparaging; belittling. A disparaging or belittling word or expression. peˇjoraˇtiveˇly -ADVERB...
3) PEJORATION, PEJORATED, PEJORATING, PEJORATIVE, DEGRADATION, DEGRADED,
DEGRADING. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...These synonymous terms stand for a kind of semantic change in which a change in association or reputation of the referent causes a word to fall in status: our word...
4) notorious, infamous, infamy, notoriety. The Columbia Guide to Standard
American English. 1993
...known, as in She s the notorious [infamous] muckraking biographer. They both are always pejorative. Infamy, the state of being infamous and of bad reputation, is...
5) jargon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...jargon, pejorative term applied to speech or writing that is considered meaningless, unintelligible, or ugly. In one sense the term is applied to the special language...
6) racism. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...is a pejorative term with two chief clusters of meaning. The first is a belief that race determines human characteristics such as intelligence, physical ability,...
7) crass. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...is a pejorative word meaning a range of unpleasant, gross, affrontive, tasteless, stupid, egregious, insensitive things, and it is often used, especially in the adverb...
8) aggressive. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...has increasingly been a pejorative word: to be aggressive usually is not admirable. But one sense of aggressive has an elevated aura: Good salespeople are aggressive...
9) JARGON, CANT. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...Jargon is a strongly pejorative label applied to language you can t understand; it refers to those needlessly specialized words that other people use to impress or...
10) fulsome. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...requires caution. Currently it is pejorative in one sense, overblown, too much, particularly as applied to praise or other verbiage: His comments on his party s candidates...
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