pejorative

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Soldiers invent "mildly pejorative terms" to help them blow off steam, Adams says.
亞當(dāng)斯說(shuō)，戰(zhàn)士們發(fā)明的“輕度貶義詞”幫助他們對(duì)于沒(méi)能得到足夠好的裝備而發(fā)泄不滿和怨氣。
He refused to use the word intelligentsia, engineering instead the ugly and pejorative obrazovanshchina, roughly “educatedness”.
他拒絕使用”知識(shí)界”（intelligentsia）一詞來(lái)描述他們，而自造出一個(gè)語(yǔ)含輕蔑的貶義詞，”obrazovanshchina”，意思基本等于”識(shí)字的”。
In more recent years, at least judging from a search of the Post archives, cads, thugs, molesters, and swindlers have most frequently elicited what the paper might call the porcine pejorative.
在最近的這些年里，至少?gòu)膶?duì)檔案的數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)可以判斷出，新聞報(bào)紙上更會(huì)經(jīng)常使用像豬一樣的這個(gè)輕蔑的詞來(lái)指代無(wú)賴，惡棍，猥褻犯，騙子這類人。

But the difference - it has assumed a pejorative meaning, just like the proverbial...
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But it was also just good journalism to discontinue the use of a needless pejorative term.
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But ideology is just a pejorative word for principles in which you happen not to believe.
ECONOMIST: Lexington

expressing disapproval, or suggesting that something is not good or is of no importance

A pejorative word or expression is one that expresses criticism of someone or something.