pejorative

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Soldiers invent "mildly pejorative terms" to help them blow off steam, Adams says.
亞儅斯說，戰(zhàn)士們發(fā)明的“輕度貶義詞”幫助他們對於沒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”知識界”（intelligentsia）一詞來描述他們，而自造出一個語含輕蔑的貶義詞，”obrazovanshchina”，意思基本等於”識字的”。
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.
在最近的這些年裡，至少從對檔案的數(shù)據(jù)庫可以判斷出，新聞報紙上更會經(jīng)常使用像豬一樣的這個輕蔑的詞來指代無賴，惡棍，猥褻犯，騙子這類人。

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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.