PEJORATIVE in a Sentence

Learn PEJORATIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. I agree I am ambitious, and I don't see that as a pejorative term.
2. Instead of criticizing Clinton's policies, the Republicans made pejorative remarks about his character.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEJORATIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pejorative
 a.  tending to make or become worse; disparaging or belittling
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Example Sentence:
1  I agree I am ambitious, and I don't see that as a pejorative term.
2  For hard-line Republicans, the word 'liberal' had become a pejorative term.
3  Instead of criticizing Clinton's policies, the Republicans made pejorative remarks about his character.