pejorative

Modifies a noun

• connotation: Bach argues against the pejorative connotations of " optical illusion " , which suggests they are visual malfunctions.
• overtone: Myths are deadly serious Modern mythologists use the term ' myth ' without any pejorative overtones.
• sense: Indeed, this pejorative sense was exactly what brought the word back into use in the mid-nineteenth century.
• term: To avoid the pejorative term ' wasteland ' , Oliver Gilbert has proposed that such areas be termed ' urban commons ' .
• meaning: The latter began to take an ever more pejorative meaning.
• word: Second, Scots pejorative words for young people of the ' lower orders ' .

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: Prime Minister: I think that is a slightly pejorative way of putting what I was saying.
• purely: Interestingly, the allocation of the label ' evil ' was neither random nor a purely pejorative act.
• clearly: Some ( pseudoseizures, hysterical fits ) are clearly pejorative and have been abandoned.
• not: So in Scots then there were not pejorative overtones to chavvy.

Used with adjective complement

• become: It could be a fairly neutral term, but as the editorial proceeds it becomes quite pejorative with many negative overtones.