pejorative
adjective
having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling meaning or effect.
nonpejorative
-
a word derived from
pejorative.
Example Sentences
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Judging from Reasoner's past form, he will be empathic, bemused and, in the nonpejorative sense of the term, Middle American.
From Time Magazine Archive
