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pejoratively
Variant of pejorative
adjective
- declining; making or becoming worse: applied to words whose basic meaning has changed for the worse (Ex.: knave, cretin)
- disparaging or derogatory
noun
a pejorative word or form
Related Forms:
- pejoratively adverb
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