pejoratively
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These same dons disdained Britain’s provincial universities—known pejoratively as Redbrick—as well as academics in the U.S., whom they scorned for going about their business with “woefully unnecessary seriousness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
“Paddy” is an old slang term for Irish people, sometimes used affectionately, but often pejoratively.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
There are some others, however, those Hoggart pejoratively terms ‘scholarship boys,’ for whom success comes with special anxiety.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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