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And in recent years, the oftentimes absurd incursion of loanwoards has become satirized in popular culture, with speech that needlessly shoehorns English in at every turn pejoratively referred to as “voguespeak” or “Pangyo dialect.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

I didn’t necessarily believe this, but I didn’t want to get labeled as exhausting or pejoratively woke.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2024

Ms. Reynolds was one of a fast-vanishing breed of D.C. fixers — known sometimes pejoratively as hostesses — who knew how to create the social conditions to make those breakthroughs happen.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022

“Paddy” is an old slang term for Irish people, sometimes used affectionately, but often pejoratively.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

I come from a country where people are more likely to visit sangomas—shamans, traditional healers, pejoratively known as witch doctors—than they are to visit doctors of Western medicine.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah