My column was called "The Moral Pejorative," and I would invite people to write things in the understanding that I would denounce them in the moral pejorative.
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These were pejorative, nasty, spiteful insults — which, ironically, I adored.
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And social realism was designed to be a pejorative term?
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They can be affectionate (honey), pejorative (bitch), slang, descriptive, etc.
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"I've heard some racist comments, some pejorative comments," he said.
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"Strident" has a pejorative sense and means shrill or harsh.
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BARR: I don't think the term has any pejorative connotation.
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Elsewhere, it seems elitist; exclusive in its most pejorative sense.
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Now here's how the term "high performer" became a pejorative….
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" Hoyer characterized the GOP's phrasing as "politically tainted" and "pejorative.
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He doesn't view the term as "pejorative," the source said.
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Maybe, and particularly if you view that term as exclusively pejorative.
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Perhaps we are on the verge of a new weaponized pejorative.
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I think that's a good, non-pejorative way of putting it.
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He ordered city workers to paint over the pejorative, he said.
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For a large number of Israelis, "Oslo" had become a pejorative.
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The practice has spawned a new and pejorative term: surveillance capitalism.
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I say that not as a pejorative, but as a point.
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But nothingness isn't necessarily pejorative: "Nothing is contained," Bolton told me.
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Free trade is a pejorative term and international alliances are unneeded.
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I say they got a pass sort of without pejorative view.
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And we can assume this because he uses "facelift" as a pejorative.
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That classification might sound like a pejorative, but it's just a fact.
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His name sounds like a gentle pejorative that would describe him perfectly.
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DG: That's good, because we usually use that term as a pejorative.
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Jessica Hembree: I've had nicknames that were pejorative and reference my femininity.
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To call the film "derivative" isn't pejorative; it's kind of the point.
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And I don't think the word 'spying' has any pejorative connotation at all.
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But this faddish use of "lame" as an all-purpose pejorative seems unsophisticated.
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And he called Strange "Lyin' Luther," recalling Trump's own penchant for pejorative nicknames.
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After all, there's a reason why the word 'robotic' is a pejorative adjective.
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She avoids using pejorative terms like "dirty needles" and promotes person-first language.
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If I don't get an answer, that's going to be a huge pejorative.
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That's not a pejorative statement; that's because of what it means to society.
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I think that neoliberal has weirdly become a pejorative all over the political spectrum.
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"I don't think the word 'spying' has any pejorative connotation at all," he said.
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He calls Baker a "RINO," a common pejorative acronym for Republican-in-name-only.
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He said the word has "pejorative" meaning that isn't relevant for this particular case.
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Prominent Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes asked Navarro not to use the pejorative word.
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"Second-class citizen" always has been used as a pejorative term, for good reason.
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While pumpkins can have pejorative associations in Japanese culture, Ms. Kusama found them charming.
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"I don't think it has a pejorative connotation at all," he told Mr. Whitehouse.
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Democrats and immigration advocates claim it is a pejorative phrase that demeans recent arrivals.
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The pejorative sobriquets of "protectionism" and "isolationism" linked to America First are utter nonsense.
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Trump has learned that describing someone as Mexican has a sub rosa pejorative meaning.
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After Republicans began throwing that term around as a pejorative, Mr. Obama embraced it.
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It is pejorative and purposely demeaning because it criminalizes the person, not the act.
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He said oligarch is a pejorative term that means someone who wields despotic power.
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The pejorative &aposold maid&aposIn the late 1690s, the term old maid became common.
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" And when other people think about procrastinators, they use that pejorative term: "They're lazy.
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Chances are, if a user is muting certain words from their notifications, they're likely pejorative.
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For starters, they'd make "socialist" a national pejorative — and have no shortage of other material.
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He said the term is a "pejorative" that would risk unfairly prejudicing jurors against Manafort.
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The woman in the group called him "limp-wristed" and another pejorative for gay men.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee runs ads using the phrase "career politician" as a pejorative.
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"I never really had anybody come up to me and say pejorative things," Wilson says.
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Japanese seem to prefer kaizen, or continuous improvement, to kaikaku, a pejorative word for reform.
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While it was often seen as attention-seeking, this wasn't, generally, in a pejorative way.
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At best, it's morally and ethically neutral, and at worst it's used as a pejorative.
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"The term is meant to be pejorative because it's a very bad policy," he said.
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For that reason I've never understood why "fair-weather fan" is used as a pejorative.
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Daesh is the pejorative Arabic acronym for Islamic State insurgents who hold parts of Syria.
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But privately, I wondered if the entire project of reclaiming a pejorative word was counterintuitive.
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Some dubbed Tom Ford's version "slick," as a pejorative; Pierre Bergé pointedly refused to comment.
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It's easy to think of giving the audience what it wants in jeering, pejorative terms.
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Dash had grown up in a Gullah family who'd told her that Geechee was a pejorative.
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Their sentimentality, emotionality, and potential corniness are also — perhaps in the pejorative — in the feminine category.
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Those who disliked it described it in pejorative adjectives, and supporters also gave only adjectival approval.
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That may sound like a pejorative term, but a minimum viable product is actually incredibly important.
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Many South Koreans of a certain age use pejorative language when they refer to the Japanese.
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Republicans coined the phrase "war on coal" as a pejorative way to describe Obama's regulatory policies.
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The judge said the term has a "pejorative" meaning and is not relevant in this case.
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Addiction is commonly used as a pejorative word with a social, cultural, legal, and medical meaning.
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The work is titled "Tankie Meme (Blacked)" — "tankie" being a pejorative term for hard-line communists.
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And he's used that opportunity to attack their Democratic opponents, at times giving them pejorative nicknames.
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Now, sour, with its pejorative connotation, is perhaps not a wholly adequate description for these beers.
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I understand that people recoil at the notion that they are part of a pejorative basket.
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It faces stereotypes and adjectives like "butch," a pejorative term that references a dowdy masculine aesthetic.
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This can make them appear, on first glance, a bit simplistic — cartoonish, in the pejorative sense.
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Benson also flirts with decoration, another narrative cast aside as pejorative in the history of modernism.
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But it's a false equivalence because the word "racist" isn't supposed to just be a pejorative.
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It was a pejorative term used by the Joes to describe the alien robots from Cybertron.
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Other pejorative terms have been removed from government documents as people better understood the hurtful connotations.
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Despite his pejorative views of other ethnic groups, Ray apparently considered "Mexican" women objects of lust.
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As someone who doesn't use "Lifetime movie" as a pejorative term, I consider this high praise.
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Reality television, for lazy media critics and beltway pundits alike, is shorthand pejorative for tawdry and cheap.
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Sarah Wollaston, a lawmaker of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party, described Broadbent's comments as "pejorative tosh".
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They are the disenfranchised, the original online social justice warriors, long before it became a pejorative term.
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Legal observers, including Jack Goldsmith, posit explanations ranging from the critical and sympathetic to, at worst, pejorative.
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Indeed, in most circles of respectable opinion, the very phrase conspiracy theory is used as a pejorative.
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It's offensive as fuck, unless you happen to be with someone who gets off on pejorative slurs.
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That term was long considered a pejorative among both blacks and whites, but she proudly reclaimed it.
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"I don't think there's anything pejorative about 'schmoozing' in the context of business," Mr. Kassan said wryly.
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To call its action wooden is merely to describe it, and not in a necessarily pejorative way.
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How, how demeaning and pejorative, and honestly, as someone who loves Ani DiFranco, I love vagina music.
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The "Karen" meme, in fact, is part of a long tradition — and a pejorative one at that.
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Vigorous social media campaigns have been mounted to counteract negative perceptions and pejorative dictionary definitions of them.
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In Beijing, that description is regarded not as pejorative but, rather, as the natural order of things. ♦
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"I don't mean this in a pejorative sense, I mean it as a compliment: Lindsey's unpredictable," said Sen.
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Its title references the pejorative term, used to describe Haitian refugees and other asylum-seekers around the world.
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Referring to Islamic State using the pejorative Arabic acronym Daesh, Fadil said the jihadists were criminals and inhumane.
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Since then, "socialist" has become a pejorative, one that was hurled at the decidedly non-socialist Barack Obama.
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"Thank God we're no longer under Daesh," he said, using a pejorative Arabic acronym for the Sunni extremists.
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Certain sources, such as Wikipedia, say it's pejorative, and it's not my goal to disparage or hurt anyone.
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Park was a rising activist who regularly spoke out against pejorative stereotyping of Asian Americans in popular culture.
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Since then the number 108 has been seen as pejorative and removed from vehicle plates, telephone numbers and houses.
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A former ref said that he tried to distinguish between pejorative adjectives (generally permitted) and nouns (not so much).
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Then, in the Unix era, we learned how to connect to that computer using dumb (not a pejorative) terminals.
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I often use "spectacle" as a pejorative when referring to games—it implies style and fleeting pleasures trumping substance.
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"Feeds and speeds" is the pejorative phrase used to describe anything technical inside a phone that isn't immediately explainable.
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In the clip, Marjorie uses the word "r—–ed," an outdated pejorative typically aimed at people with intellectual disabilities.
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It's easy to use "moral panic" as a pejorative description of almost any widespread social phenomenon you don't like.
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Once you begin to understand the pejorative nature of marijuana, though, you really understand the medical value of cannabis.
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The Rohingya are referred to as "Bengali" on the map, a pejorative term that suggests they are foreign interlopers.
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And he later took aim at two female journalists — Megyn Kelly and Mika Brzezinski — describing them in pejorative terms.
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These days, it's a term of abuse — a shorthand for puritanical political correctness, a pejorative wielded against liberal elitism.
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It's not pejorative: There's something refreshing about old-fashioned fashion, particularly when it seems patently aware of its consumer.
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Confounding the pejorative-or-not question that surrounds the word is its new proximity to the idea of representation.
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American men in the mid-eighteenth century southeast territory apparently took great umbrage at any pejorative thrown in their direction.
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Boredom may sound like a pejorative term, but in social psychology it's an actual phenomenon that should be taken seriously.
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A post from the commander-in-chief pledged to solve "the Bengali problem," using a pejorative for Rohingya in Myanmar.
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"The ultimate pejorative was if you came up with something and someone else described it as corny," Bob-Waksberg says.
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She'd be "very disappointed" to learn Keaton had used a hateful pejorative, she said, before her son interrupted the interview.
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It depends on what your definition of populist — sometimes there's a misnomer to that definition that's somewhat of a pejorative.
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And it turns out that the left loves it because it's a "pejorative" because a mooch is a mooch, right?
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But like fashion, language is always evolving, and in recent months, the word has sometimes been used as a pejorative.
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"OK 𝙱̶𝚘̶𝚘̶𝚖̶𝚎̶𝚛̶ Sanghi," read a poster, modifying a viral cultural catchphrase to refer to a pejorative word for Modi supporters.
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The word "sectarian" has a history of being used as a pejorative for religious viewpoints and beliefs outside the mainstream.
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Ethics and integrity seem to get lost somewhere in the shuffle, and therefore the word Machiavellian has become a pejorative term.
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Nasrallah blasted Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for recent pejorative comments about the Shi'ite religious beliefs of Iran's leadership.
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The "joke" behind the entire over-explanation is that Angelica is still using the word "gay" in an outdated, pejorative way.
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The term was pejorative, Ellis said, and implied that Manafort associated with criminals, when there wouldn't be any evidence about that.
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The president, for his part, has targeted few leading candidates, such as Biden and Warren, whom he has given pejorative nicknames.
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"The Daesh myth of their great battle in Dabiq is finished," he told Reuters, using a pejorative name for Islamic State.
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She used the pejorative acronym Daesh for IS, rather than "dawla", Arabic for state, which many in the camp still use.
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To this day, film critics use video games as pejorative when describing lesser films that are too frenetic or emotionally vacant.
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Each succeeding term that entered the lexicon developed a pejorative connotation; consider the idiot-and-moron banter of the Three Stooges.
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Worst is when the pejorative is used to discount figures who brought distinctive personalities to the scoring business, thereby elevating it.
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"We set out to dismantle the pejorative meaning the word 'dissident' has had in Cuba," Ms. Nuñez said in an interview.
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In my estimation, his use of the word "young" when addressing Shaver and his hotel guest was as a condescending pejorative.
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Considering its pejorative and vulgar connotations, "politicize," from the ancient Greek politikos, or "belonging to the state," had relatively lofty beginnings.
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A loss means that even though all of our major cities are blue, the old, [insert pejorative here] Texas still prevails.
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Indeed, not every town is welcoming an influx of "shoobies" or "bennies" — pejorative terms for day trippers — to their glistening shores.
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"We must fight them the way Hitler did the Jews, damn kalars!" the person wrote, using a pejorative for the Rohingya.
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"I had heard of John, mostly in a pejorative sense—that he was a right-wing conservative guy," Thomas told me.
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The term, which conventionally refers to mixed-breed dogs, is commonly used as a pejorative toward people of mixed racial descent.
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Considering "fake news" is now basically used as a pejorative to describe any news story someone doesn't like, will this be effective?
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"They displace Arabs from villages by calling them Daesh," says a Kurdish intelligence officer, using the pejorative name for Islamic State (IS).
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Even stranger still is that it has become a pejorative largely lobbed by the left less at Republicans and more at Democrats.
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As it turns out, SumSum (Rick's new pejorative for his niece) isn't the only one to receive some therapeutic murderous wasteland healing.
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In one of the issues, a Jamaican man uses the term "batty boy"—a Jamaican pejorative generally meant to target queer men.
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When Spanish colonialists came to Mexico, they ignored the existing 'popular arts,' (a term that Rivera notes "barely hides its pejorative connotation").
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The Twitter hashtag "NoSeanPenndejos" was meant as a play on words in Spanish at Mr. Penn's expense: "Pendejo" is a vulgar pejorative.
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History reminds us of how inappropriate legislative language foreshadowed a pejorative way to demean immigrants in society, particularly from the southern border.
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Sanders knew that the term "nationalized medicine" would be seen as pejorative by a majority of Americans, so he renamed the concept.
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Its critics are right that neoliberalism has multiple meanings and can be used in a way that is more pejorative than precise.
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As she rode in a crowded subway car, several passengers began to elbow her while hissing "petralha," a pejorative for party stalwarts.
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It is unhelpful that the disease and label of addiction carries a pejorative connotation that has social, political, cultural, and legal implications.
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"Some have begun to call public schools 'government schools,' a calculated pejorative scorning both education and anything related to government," he wrote.
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Here, Puerto Rico is said to be a "free associated state" of the United States, and the word "territory" is considered pejorative.
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Catch and release is a term with no legal definition and has been used as a pejorative alternative to jailing illegal immigrants.
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He claimed he was voted into office with significant support from what he termed the "kalar," a common pejorative for the Rohingya.
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Pejorative statements about politicians' dress serve little purpose other than to distract us from the work politicians have been elected to do.
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The source said Barr doesn't view the term as "pejorative" and is focused on where there was proper "predication" for any surveillance.
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But others saw this moment as a well-earned victory for Hibs fans, with some fans crying out "classism" at commentators' pejorative comments.
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Somewhat sheepish, he quickly labeled this foray "plastic soul," a pejorative designation meant, in part perhaps, to insulate him from charges of inauthenticity.
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"He never called me boy," Biden said of Eastland, prompting reminders that "boy" has often been used as a pejorative for black men.
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He later said he didn't mean anything pejorative and was gathering a team to look into the origins of the special counsel's investigation.
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The mercurial nature of P2P lending Those of us interested in marketplace lending have recently observed many pejorative headlines about P2P lending platforms.
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Bottom line: While "shadow banking" may be a pejorative term — which seems to be Treasury's gripe — it hasn't stopped the industry's rapid growth.
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In the event that an abnormal conversation isn't even recognized by the agent, a service like Cogito can be informative rather than pejorative.
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Throughout the video, the dubbed Sanders refers to reporters with pejorative nicknames including "Stanky" and "Chump," while firing back quick insults after questions.
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I'm not going to undermine that process by branding or punishing myself with pejorative terms, especially when they can be so broadly interpreted.
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IT IS NOW standard for "early work" to become a pejorative term for artists who are lucky enough to achieve a long career.
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" Mr. Medvedovsky, who calls Ms. Khan's article "the face of this movement," said the term was designed to be "playful rather than pejorative.
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Republicans of the 22018s turned "liberal" into a pejorative for Democrats who were too willing to expand big government and increase sexual permissiveness.
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And judging by his penchant for giving people pejorative nicknames with "little" in them, Trump thinks a lot of people are the worst.
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" A source familiar with Barr's thinking, however, said that he referred to "spying" in the "classic sense" of intelligence collection, not as "pejorative.
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Fact is ... if you survey people on the word it's safe to say most would tell you it's a pejorative term against gay people.
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Tankie is a pejorative term used mostly by young Democratic Socialists (and other leftists) to describe people who—as you might expect—like tanks.
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"Generic" has become a pejorative term — a way to say that something relies too heavily on known and worn paths of a given genre.
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Over the coming year, look for the description to assume a more pejorative connotation, as "superstar" and "inequality" meld into one negative new zeitgeist.
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This has been a gripe I've had for a little while now: we're at a place where the term "safe space" has become pejorative.
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Posters promoting London's Pride Festival have been heavily criticised for using "gay" in a pejorative sense and for "ignoring" sections of the LGBTQ+ community.
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But I just thought it was interesting when game convey something about themselves through difficulty, often in pejorative or like frustratingly like vague terms.
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Weibo has on multiple occasions over recent years blocked posts and searches with the words "Fatty Kim the Third," a pejorative term for Kim.
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Trump has made pejorative comments about Mexicans and vowed to make Mexico pay for a new wall on the border between the two countries.
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More recent international criminal tribunals have shed some of those pejorative labels, but they have struggled mightily to obtain credible evidence supporting their convictions.
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One big change: Tech companies no longer boast of being "disruptive," which has assumed a more pejorative meaning than it previously carried, Garfield said.
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Mr. Kobach ran ads that turned "liberal" into a pejorative and pledged to shield Kansas from outside forces like the federal government and immigrants.
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To illustrate that, the article includes an anonymous threatening letter sent to Husain with pejorative terms scribbled over a photocopy of the Post's article.
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"I think 'justification' is a little bit pejorative, because the suggestion would be that the rules that we have today are perfect," he replied.
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Now cultural appropriation is wielded as a pejorative against writers and artists who draw material from the trauma of those less privileged than themselves.
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He publicly provides his assessments of how all kinds of people are doing, and he doesn't hold much back, including pejorative nicknames for public officials.
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Data from Google Books show the plural word "elites" beginning to be used in about 1940, with the obviously pejorative "elitist" rising from about 1960.
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And then Resnick clarified that she didn't feel anything "pejorative" toward Edwards, and asked if Edwards felt any better, and Edwards said that she did.
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Bitcoin maximalists believe every cryptocurrency that isn't bitcoin is a shitcoin, while others reserve the pejorative term for truly the worst of the worst alts.
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The first batch of audio, released Sunday, included Carlson describing Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart, journalist Arianna Huffington and singer Britney Spears in pejorative terms.
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"(W)hen you call something 'trickle down,' that's a pejorative phrase designed to cynically look at what we are trying to do here," he said.
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There is even a pejorative French word for the introduction of these alternate identities, "communitarianism," the growth of which is seen as a national crisis.
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"The label is so powerfully pejorative and carries so much weight," said Martha Crenshaw, a terrorism expert at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.
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We're now in a world where there's perhaps more, sort of, stronger — I'll avoid using the word extreme, because that's probably a bit too pejorative.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that a weed is just "a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered," but its name is already a pejorative.
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This assumption is at the heart of slacktivism, the ill-defined and pejorative term that describes social media activism carried out with little personal effort.
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It soon became the preferred pejorative for any rebellious slave, as if geographic origin were the only possible explanation for why someone would resist enslavement.
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As he has done in the past, he is using the loaded -- and pejorative -- word "spying" to describe a lawful FISA warrant executed against Page.
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" In New York on Tuesday, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and immigration professors said "family reunification" could be a less pejorative synonym for "chain migration.
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" In a hearing earlier this month, Barr defended his use of the word, saying he doesn't think "the word spying has any pejorative connotation at all.
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The diet doesn't prohibit treats by any means—as long as they're healthy—but it does project pejorative language on anything containing additives, calling them "nasties.".
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They are players who are engaged in a political battle: "closed" is used as a pejorative description ("closed-minded") and "open" as a term of praise.
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According to the Outline, stan made its pejorative debut on a Nas diss track in 2001, then was reclaimed as a self-deprecating verb years later.
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It backed troops with air strikes on the "terrorists" and "Chadian mercenaries", the officials said, using a pejorative for Chadian opposition groups active in south Libya.
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He was one of those guys that still used "gay" as a pejorative to express his dissatisfaction with everything from his schedule to the night's specials.
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Disclosure note | I signed on this year as a "topic director," one of a batch of energy wonks (I don't see that as a pejorative label).
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Setting aside that baggage, "The Upside" is positioned as a "feel-good" movie, a term that can be pejorative when not taken on its own terms.
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Before "factory farming" became a pejorative, agricultural scholars of the mid-20th century were calling for farmers to do just that — become more factorylike and businesslike.
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If true, Federico can hardly be faulted for his failure to draw the link between the word and its history as a pejorative for Asian-Americans.
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In the Holy Roman Empire, Frankish wines were favored over ones that were Heunisch ("from the Huns"), a pejorative describing anything from the eastern Slavic lands.
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"Limousine liberal" is a pejorative term, but if we're looking at pure riches, the best-educated district is also the second-wealthiest district in the country.
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Today's resurgent left is turning "liberal" into a pejorative for Democrats who are too eager to accommodate Republicans who give them absolutely no love in return.
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Among other things, Carlson described Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart, journalist Arianna Huffington and Britney Spears with pejorative terms, according to transcripts posted by the outlet.
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As part of the study, researchers analysed the language around 4 million tweets and found that women were more likely than men to use pejorative, misogynistic language.
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Trump tried to act presidential after the New York primary, winning approving press coverage for referring to rival Ted Cruz as "senator" and not with some pejorative.
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The other day he turned to the bounteous trove of the English language for a pejorative worthy of his critics' awfulness, at least as he sees it.
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Some Iranian Kurds talked dreamily of a state they call Rojhelat, or East Kurdistan, which would slough off the "occupation" by Ajamastan, a pejorative term for Iran.
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KAMALA HARRIS, D-CALIFORNIA: I have a problem, guys, with that phrase, identity politics, because let&aposs be clear, when people say that, it&aposs a pejorative.
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This year, the nickname has become Mr. Trump's favorite pejorative for punching back at Ms. Warren, a progressive Democrat who is one of his most vocal critics.
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" Are these pejorative connotations coming from the people who use the term, or do they only exist in the minds of the people who dislike "illegal alien?
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"I don't think spying has any pejorative at all," Barr said Wednesday during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to a question from Sen.
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"Freak show," while I like the word, still feels pejorative to many people—the whole person-sitting-in-a-cage-while-onlookers-toss-coins-at-them thing.
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"Cuck" is a pejorative term used by the so-called alt-right for a man who has no self-respect, or more broadly for politically liberal males.
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Fact Check WASHINGTON — Most people think of the term "bailout," as a political pejorative, often involving hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being funneled to failing companies.
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Caipira is the Brazilian Portuguese equivalent to a redneck or hick, a pejorative term for a rural individual often assumed to be uneducated, uncultured, and generally ignorant.
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Why it's good: "Empathy" in VR has gone from a buzzword to a sarcastic pejorative, following a lot of experiences simulating homelessness, refugee camps, or war zones.
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" Ofcom also chastised the company for the language it used to describe employee misconduct, saying that it "tended to downplay the harm caused" and was "unnecessarily pejorative.
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In her 2012 Senate race, Republican Scott Brown made hay of both Warren's corporate work and her association with Harvard, turning the term "professor" into a pejorative.
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The academic term "cultural Marxism" is a positive one that denotes the spread of Marxist values throughout culture, but its common use today is much more pejorative.
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"What still sticks in my craw is the way these men who served on Swift boats themselves turned the words 'Swift boat' into a pejorative," he writes.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE, and who knows what pejorative the president will apply.
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Political pros call it the "spoiler effect," and whether or not we employ that pejorative term, it is a real phenomenon that could feasibly happen in 2020.
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More From Tonic: Because of its rarity and the pejorative nature of the condition, there is very little research, Paulman says, mostly just case studies detailing individual experiences.
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She has pushed back against critics of "identity politics," who she says are using the term as a pejorative to marginalize issues of race, gender and sexual orientation.
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Disputed amongst etymologists about the exact origin of the phrase, an elongated, arguably poetic version of the pejorative idiom "son of a bitch" can be accredited to Shakespeare.
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Most of the artists kept working, and the questions they raised about decoration, craft, function and (even) beauty — and the frequently pejorative connotations of those words — hung around.
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And unlike European automakers, which re-established their prewar reputations relatively quickly, "made in Japan" largely existed as a pejorative, synonymous with cheap manufacturing methods and flimsy construction.
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The word "procedural" has become a pejorative in some discussions about TV, due to the proliferation of generic "high-tech team solves a new case each week" shows.
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In 1978, a satirical book that explored the pitfalls of medical language, The House of God, was considered revolutionary for exposing this kind of pejorative language in practice.
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The label "loser" may be widely used as a pejorative, but Mr. Trump can take comfort in knowing many people before him proudly wore the label with pride.
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He petitioned for representative government in 1881, earning seven years in exile and the pejorative nickname "queen bee" of the liberals from the czar's secret police, documents show.
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Mr. West comes from the world of hip-hop, where use of that term to refer to women can be so pervasive as to dull its pejorative meaning.
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But, whether Edelstein intended to or not, the term torture porn ended up as a blanket and often pejorative term that negatively labeled a whole range of films.
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As "homosexual" began to feel clinical and pejorative, gay became the de rigueur mainstream term to refer to same-sex attraction in the late 1960s and early '70s.
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People vote in their self-interest — I don't mean it in pejorative way — but [voters think about what a tax will mean] when it comes to their kids.
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The word "neoliberal" has become a favored pejorative in the years since the 2016 presidential election — an insult that people love to hurl at each other on Twitter.
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But I still think its point was clear: The phrase 'locker room talk' became a pejorative in the American vernacular as soon as the Trump tape exposed it.
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Once considered a pejorative term, queer has been reclaimed by some LGBT people to describe themselves; however, it is not a universally accepted term, even within the LGBT community.
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This is true of both "elites" (a word now invariably used as a pejorative, outside of military contexts) and the legions of impoverished young students and travel-hungry twentysomethings.
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"VDare's use of the term in a pejorative manner casts Jewish history in a negative light as an Anti-Semitic trope of Jews seeking power and control," she wrote.
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Not childish in a pejorative sense, but childish in that it reflects a yearning for a world that's too sealed and too small to fit anything like adult life.
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"The real shame is the posters are beautifully designed, some with great messages, but you cannot use gay as a pejorative on LGBT material," wrote gay blogger The Guyliner.
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Some Native American activists, however, assert the term arose as a pejorative and is linked to bounties placed on the scalps of Native Americans by the United States government.
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Ironically, only fellow liberals will be cowed by terror of being branded a racist (a pejorative lobbed at me in recent days — one that, however groundless, tends to stick).
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Trump, in turn, has taken aim at Warren during his campaign-style rallies, repeatedly referring to her by a pejorative nickname based on her claims to Native American heritage.
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" Among the Denk party's stated policy goals are banning from legislative forums a pejorative term often used for Dutch nonwhites, "allochtoon," and to replace the term "integration" with "acceptance.
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On my podcast, for some incredibly stupid reason, I once proclaimed that Donnell doesn't merely have cinderblocks where his hands should be, because somehow that didn't seem pejorative enough.
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Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the pejorative term "meritocracy" over a half-century ago to describe a future in which standardized intelligence tests would crown a new elite.
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I am referring to the endless self-flagellation among well-educated liberals — "the elites," in pejorative parlance — about their failure to "get" the concerns of white working-class voters.
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There's something really specific about being a Hoover and the pejorative term that was multigenerationally tethered to economic hard times, misery and antipathy for the struggles of ordinary people.
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Whenever I saw the "disco axe," as Goldberg calls it, I thought of that pejorative term for a fierce woman—"battle-axe"—and how she was redefining the role.
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Assigning such a pejorative label to her would overlook her roles as a wife, a mother, and a successful entrepreneur, all because of an illegal act in the past.
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Few people used the term "walking sim" until it came into widespread use in 2014 as a reactionary pejorative for a certain kind of exploration-drive, character-focused game.
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" Responding to the President's tweet, Sanford noted that Trump is "allowed to say whatever he wants" and that he has a "pejorative word for all kinds of different folks.
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When people talk about the president and say, "That's unprecedented," or as he said, "unpresidented," I don't know that that's a pejorative, but Barack Obama was an unprecedented presidency.
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"Difficult to coach" is often a pejorative label, because fans generally consider it to be reflective of a certain personal choice—either you choose to be coachable or you don't.
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Once considered a pejorative term, queer has been reclaimed by some LGBTQ+ people to describe themselves; however, it is not a universally accepted term, even within the LGBTQ+ community. LGBTQ+
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The term would acquire a pejorative cast—one that shadowed advertising itself—but snake-oil salesmen, among other vendors of patent medicines, were the engines of the early attention industry.
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The U.S. had strained relations with Cuba, but nearly two decades after the Bay of Pigs invasion, we accepted 100,000 "Marielitos" (once a pejorative term), some with known criminal backgrounds.
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"Without an inclusive political process, including those who are excluded, particularly the majority, the Sunnis, Daesh will come back," he said, referring to Islamic State by its pejorative Arabic name.
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Misogynist and racist myths about race, single mothers' family structure, and the work ethic gave rise to welfare reform and underlie the pejorative and punitive strategy of its various provisions.
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There is one entry that gave the editors and this writer pause, however, and that is the central entry GHETTO BLASTER, which can be thought of as a pejorative term.
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"The word 'PETA' has become a pejorative for stunts, gimmicks, and putting feelings over facts when it comes to animal issues," he wrote in the conservative publication Quillette last December.
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But unlike much of the basketball-watching world, Kerr tends to think of the word "show" — at least as far as it pertains to his team — as a pejorative term.
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Trump was criticized for his tweet aimed at his former White House staffer, with many taking offense to his pejorative use of the word "dog" to describe a black woman.
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So for me, and this is similar to the Media Lab, my sister's an academic and until recently when I said something was "academic" it was meant as a pejorative.
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The entire species of early human ancestors has long been reduced to a pejorative for describing someone who isn't very bright, despite growing evidence of the sophistication of Homo neanderthalensis.
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"I don't think anyone would rape Bengali women because they are ugly and disgusting," said one Ma Ba Tha monk, U Rarza, referring to the Rohingya by a pejorative term.
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The word "welfare" — politically loaded and often pejorative, especially among the president's conservative supporters — has historically been used to describe cash assistance programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
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But even if you call it "spying," which clearly has a pejorative element to it, what we should all be able to agree on is that it is not illegal.
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He views the term as pejorative, and he is notably skeptical about the value of psychiatric diagnosis in voice-hearing cases: It is no more meaningful to attempt to diagnose . . .
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As the world knows, Mr. Trump's chief debate tactic to date is getting under the skin of his opponents by identifying perceived vulnerabilities, appending pejorative descriptors, and then making them stick.
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In March, the library said it would make the change, after agreeing with Ms. Padilla's argument — bolstered by an American Library Association resolution — that "alien" and "illegal alien" are pejorative terms.
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It is easy to regard leaders like Revels (including, later, the electorally reticent Booker T. Washington) as "Uncle Toms"—a term that, Gates notes, doesn't become pejorative until the next century.
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In the 1970s, before the term became pejorative, "Eurocrats" in Brussels took pride in being at the vanguard of a worldwide trend for which they popularized a little-used word: globalization.
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These days, though, it's often women — Lana Del Rey and Björk among them — deploying "witch" (or related terminology) to describe themselves, not as a pejorative but as a badge of honor.
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Using pejorative slurs for women and African-Americans, he said that he planned to attend all of Ms. Waters's public events and vowed to kill her and her staff, prosecutors said.
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With all of its pejorative connotations, "Ponzi scheme" may actually be a bit unfair to Ponzi, conjuring up someone who was more mendacious and greedy than the real Ponzi actually was.
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Asked if he considered that term a pejorative, Mr. Barr noted that he has a working spouse, Carol Leavell Barr, and two young daughters whom he featured in an earlier ad.
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The use of "swamp" as a pejorative ignores all of this, while reflecting an ecological ignorance and a general disparagement of the swampier regions of the country, particularly in the South.
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Travis Scott's three-years-in-the-making opus doesn't have much to say across its 17 tracks but it's 20183, but only losers and old people use that as a pejorative.
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The events that followed the appeasement of Germany in the 1930s were so horrific that appeasement has become an unequivocal pejorative — evoking an unholy combination of blind obliviousness and cowardly acquiescence.
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If men can passively ignore every pejorative weaponized against women in a genre still dominated by men, turning a blind eye to rape is a cakewalk we never hesitate to scurry down.
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"I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man," Trump wrote on Twitter, using a pejorative nickname for Kim.
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In her opening statement, Clinton began with an oblique attack on the GOP, defending the "New York values" that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a Texas senator, has used as a pejorative.
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For DSM III-R, which was published in 1987, the committee chose "dependence" as the official diagnostic term because the label of addiction was seen as "pejorative," he recalled in an interview.
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In North Korea's official newspaper, sadaesasang is a pejorative word leveled at the South, the lackey of "Yankee bastards" — ostensibly the antithesis of Pyongyang's juche self-reliance and independence from the West.
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Nowadays the word "sentimental" is impossible to detach from its pejorative sense, but the original, philosophical sense of the word refers to thought that is either colored by, or proceeds from, feeling.
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" In a third clip, Carlson — evidently joking — used a pejorative term for homosexuals to express his respect for the radio show's host that he loved him "in a completely f****t way.
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"The initiators of such resolutions do not want these people to be visible in public life, so they wrap the whole set of equality actions in the pejorative word 'ideology,'" Gawron wrote.
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As the head of the Justice Department, Barr is two steps above the FBI's director, Christopher Wray, and defenders of the agency have called Barr's pejorative use of the term "spying" inappropriate.
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"Tankie": When you see this one, you know you've reached the left-wing fringe—it's mostly a pejorative that's used by leftists to describe leftists that have strange, often pro-dictator positions.
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And I'm not saying that in a way, I don't mean that to be pejorative, I think everybody should be involved in our politics however they want to be involved in our politics.
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A jazz lover, Brathwaite was known for writing in and exalting the English spoken in the Caribbean with its African rhythms and timbre which he coined "nation language," considering the term "dialect" pejorative.
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The financial analogy of "portfolio model", and its association with Michael Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York City, has made the term pejorative among those who talk of education being privatised.
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"Fat" and "millennial" share the same double-edged sword, being both factual descriptions and frequently used as a pejorative hurled at a subset of women as though we're blithely unaware of the truth.
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According to Roger Chennells, a human-rights lawyer at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, they found the consent procedures inappropriate and some of the language used in the paper, such as "Bushmen", pejorative.
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Not long ago, for example, "queer" was considered a pejorative for gays and lesbians; now it has become what linguists call a reclaimed epithet — a word adopted by a group in empowering defiance.
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The concept of the "gothic" originated first as a pejorative, derived from the Goths and Visigoths who sacked Ancient Rome, to refer to a distinct style of medieval architecture as barbarous and uncivilized.
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More importantly, reconciliation, once we looked back, is how do we live together in the future in a very reconciled way without having to worry about pejorative language that can trigger tense conversation.
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Hearing Ms. Cattrall analyze the pejorative implication of the term "childless" (while discussing modern womanhood on another BBC program) feels like pressing a cold compress into the hot, black space behind your eyes.
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"They have been using the word welfare because it is pejorative," said Elaine Waxman, a senior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.
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Increasingly, "Karen" in particular has emerged as the frontrunner for the average "basic white person name" — a pejorative catchall label for a wide range of behaviors thought to have connections to white privilege.
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In other words, there's nothing in particular about the meaning of the name "Karen," or the specific trajectory of the name in pop culture, that lends itself to this kind of pejorative use.
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Don't think for a second that because Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Baby Bottle is the cheapest option on our list in terms of price that it's a cheap bottle in the pejorative sense.
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The name Hi-Collar comes from "haikara," Japanese slang that was originally a pejorative for young men of the late-19th-century Meiji era who wore stand-up collars like their British counterparts.
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The term isn't necessarily a pejorative; it's used as an affectionate label for dishes that at first glance may seem off-putting, even downright alien, but whose very transgressiveness speaks to their charm.
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Sherrod Brown does speak for this great mass of individuals, he is labeled with the pejorative term "populist," as though it is unfair to appeal to what most of the country really wants.
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We tend to have a younger, millennial audience — and I hesitate to use the word millennial because they tend to react negatively, which I understand because it's usually said in such a pejorative context.
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"It is pejorative language which prejudges the case, and it is language and reporting — if reporting indeed is what it is — that could have had the effect of substantially derailing the trial," Norton said.
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Racebending is a concept that has existed in fandom since long before Hamilton, in both a pejorative sense, as when roles are whitewashed, and a positive sense, as when they're reclaimed for marginalized identities.
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Sadly, our President has set an inhumane tone on immigration, from calling people "illegal immigrants" (a pejorative and inaccurate term) to falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants voting resulted in his losing the popular vote.
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He argues that we should stop thinking of "racist" as a pejorative, and start thinking of it as a simple description, so that we can join him in the difficult work of becoming antiracists.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds and other alternative investments will no longer be dubbed "shadow banks" by global regulators, lifting a pejorative label which has stuck to the $45 trillion sector since the financial crisis.
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The petition said there's nothing pejorative about describing judges as policymakers – Justices Antonin Scalia and Oliver Wendell Holmes are among the distinguished American jurists, Delaware said, to have acknowledged that judges shape the law.
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In this formulation, "genre" is a pejorative adjective for any kind of mediocre writing rather than a designation for nonliterary styles, and can easily refer to mediocre fiction that happens to carry "literary" markers.
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Obama made no secret of his dislike for Netanyahu, as evidenced in pejorative remarks overheard on an open microphone, a campaign to prevent his reelection, public condemnation and high-profile snubs during official visits.
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He says one patient had to be part of a long email chain over whether the term "flip chart" could be used in the workplace, since the word "flip" is a pejorative for Filipino.
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In posts dating back to 2010, Calvin had used "gay" as a pejorative, written "fuck all cops," and spelled out the word "niggas" twice when he was quoting others, including a Kanye West lyric.
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Because my dad worked in the design world, he had a lot of close gay friends, and I'm really grateful that my first introduction to gay identity was not in a derogatory or pejorative way.
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Alternative postsecondary education pathways such as career and technical education programs have long suffered from a pejorative perception as places where low-income children and children of color are consigned to a second-rate education.
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Now, there might be a smidgen of excusability if the name was always used as a pejorative but sadly, the joke label stuck, and and brostep boys embraced the name in a sweaty bear hug.
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And not to make sort of a pejorative comparison to Medicare or Medicaid, but I will say from my standpoint of working at FDA I think it's one of the highest performing agencies in Washington.
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"He would start fights over text, and several times he said, 'Go get yourself some treatment' in a pejorative way, even though he used to discourage me from going to my psych appointments," she says.
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For me, that includes pejorative terms including slurs of all kinds, as well as various historical and public figures whose inclusion could be seen as tantamount to acceptance or endorsement of their ideas or actions.
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What concerned him more was the pejorative nature of the word "slum" and how outsiders perceived Dharavi, an area smaller than New York City's Central Park but where about a million people live and work.
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"Our modern day Pocahontas won't go down in history as a winner, but she may very well go down as the all time great SPOILER!" he tweeted using his pejorative nickname for the senator. Wow!
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He's the type of kid who gets called "classy" without it being a pejorative; he's homeschooled ("This is actually how I get a lot of my social time in," he says), and is remarkably poised.
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This entry has not yet been updated to include its more recent sense, the pejorative version, often plural, which can be glossed as "people with unearned privileges who keep honest folks from getting a fair shake".
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But K'in Obregon, in 1937, was brought to France to be exhibited in a human zoo during a World Fair, where it was pejorative to compare him to an animal through a naturalist point of view.
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Another popular myth is that the debt grew when the local government issued excessive debt to pay its "socialist" policies: a pejorative adjective always used to criticize help for the poor, not the bailouts of corporations.
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If you start going to a funeral every month, it's going to be 40 years on average before you go to one where there's any estate tax to do it with, and it's a pejorative term.
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Sure, while the left fully embraces the simple concept of equality for men and women, it's been used as a pejorative for a generation or two by the conservative patriarchy — it simply doesn't fit their narrative.
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In the 1990s at Sturgis, Harley riders would torch so called "rice burners" — a pejorative term for Japanese bikes — or tie them to the back of their all-American motorcycles and drag them down the streets.
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I'm not condemning this mode of reasoning by using the pejorative term self-centered, just observing that our intuitions about risk are informed by calculations centered on ourselves, not centered on, say, humanity or the planet.
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"I never heard her say anything pejorative or derogatory about the president," said one current US diplomat who worked closely with Yovanovitch in Kyiv and spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of professional retaliation.
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This and the unfamiliarity of most of the works—some hundred and twenty monotypes, from museums and collections worldwide, augmented with more conventional pictures—make the show special, in both the good and the pejorative senses.
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It tells them that their voices lack authority, like in the case of vocal fry and upspeak, a vocal phenomenon that both men and women exhibit but is used most often as a pejorative against the latter.
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A year later, this image from the game is still commonly circulated, attached to this pejorative internet meme: This video functioned as a Venn diagram of things the internet loves to hate: selfie culture, millennials, and women.
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Radical environmentalists and ecoterrorists — a loaded term that's been used as a pejorative against activists before, but that's specifically referring here to those who inflict intentional or accidental violence — have made for occasional, useful villains in fiction.
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"Then, on the other hand, it sounds pejorative, but it's definitely true that Jackie could have set Lee up in a great way financially, and she never did," Taraborrelli adds, referencing Lee's financial difficulties later in life.
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It's a pejorative term coined by sociologists to describe keyboard activists who react to an online movement so they can feel good about themselves, but these social "slackers" are thought to stop short of taking offline action.
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"He got penalized by that word 'prolific,' used in a pejorative way, and that was the turning point," says the actor and director Joe Mantello, who staged the original "Take Me Out" and several subsequent Greenberg plays.
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That is a neutral description, but Mr. Trump on Friday used the term in a way that was clearly intended to carry pejorative connotations: "He's a leaker," Mr. Trump said of Mr. Comey at a news conference.
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And though he has personally condemned non-democratic regimes in places like Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua -- he's labeled them as socialist, the same pejorative characterization he likes to slap on Democrats whose views differ from his own.
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Today Google Maps seems, in the pejorative sense of the term, robotic: It simply accepts an explicit demand (the need to get from one place to another) and tries to satisfy that demand as efficiently as possible.
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In fact, if you've ever called someone a "redneck" or been called one yourself, you can trace that proud pejorative back to one of the bloodiest battles between labor and management to occur in our nation's history.
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Benjamin, who, in 303, co-wrote a book, "The Age of Sacred Terror," about the ideological war that America faced against radical Islam, deemed Flynn's comments "pointlessly pejorative" and thought they would serve only to inflame extremists.
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As the word blogging has become a pejorative and the impact of decisions made about technology have been made dramatically and frighteningly clear, I believe that the overall shift has been away from having conversations and towards pontification.
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This sort of transaction, which lessens the embarrassment of selling too cheap something which goes on to be a success, is referred to on Wall Street with a pejorative term that can be roughly translated as "sucker insurance".
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The industry employs around 20,000 people and brings in annual revenues of $62m, according to Pawan Garg of All India Woollen and Shoddy Mills Association, a trade body ("shoddy" was originally a non-pejorative word for reclaimed fibre).
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In a feature last fall, the New York Times Magazine described these new sites and Facebook pages as "hyperpartisan," and since then the label — which some publishers and writers for these sites find pejorative — began to take hold.
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Umm Mahmoud, now with her family in a packed youth center housing some 2,000 people displaced by recent fighting, said the "hardest thing about life under Daesh was the hunger", using the pejorative Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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"I'm the Mizrahi/You don't know/I'm the Mizrahi/You don't mention," begins a poem by Adi Keissar, who founded Ars Poetica, a reading series featuring young Mizrahi poets; the name, taken from Horace, reclaims the pejorative ars.
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But the transparency comes with risks: Medical practitioners often use professional language that is pejorative, paternalistic, accusatory, and aggressive—revealing a power dynamic between doctor and patient that can disrupt therapeutic relationships and affect how patients are cared for.
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"Here are 'Chavista' Catholics too, not all Catholics are 'squalid'!" he said, using a pejorative term for opponents first coined by Chavez, who never forgave some in the Catholic hierarchy for endorsing a short-lived 2002 putsch against him.
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But while the shillelagh was practically a pejorative projected upon the brutish Irish by their English neighbors, inside the country, the shillelagh symbolized their ancient warrior traditions, something that the Irish were proud of retaining in their modern lives.
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Norm Macdonald offered an apology — this time for his apology — on "The View" on Thursday, a day after he tried to explain his earlier remarks about the #MeToo movement by making a pejorative reference to people with Down syndrome.
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The conceit of Orientalism — that the pejorative tropes regurgitated in the art, literature, and history produced by Europeans somehow constitute an unassailably objective body of knowledge — makes the use of "inspired" in the exhibition title rather difficult to accept.
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A 2018 experiment in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, for example, identified how stigmatized language—pejorative terms—used in a patient's medical records, negatively impacts how subsequent providers care for that patient, including less management of the patient's pain.
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"After diligent and detailed intelligence gathering the intelligence department was able soon to thwart a criminal and destructive plot linked by the terrorist Daesh group aimed at destabilizing national security," the statement said, using the pejorative Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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"What would have happened if it were a woman who said, 'There goes Ken Fisher, saying pejorative things about women,'?" she said, noting that a male financial advisor was the one who brought the episode to light in a viral video.
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When talking to journalists, always off the record, those who knew him then use various pejorative metaphors for this hostility: thorn in the side, stone in the shoe or—the consensus pick—simply a self-righteous pain in the ass.
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And many of Republicans who ran in 2016 also struggled to define themselves and not have Mr. Trump do the job for them; his pejorative nicknames for rivals like "Low Energy" Jeb Bush, "Lyin' Ted" and "Liddle Marco" did political damage.
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Lee's emphasis on helping those in recovery as people who have a problem instead of people who are a problem importantly differentiates his point of view (and that of other highly qualified addiction experts) from the layperson's pejorative perception of addiction.
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Used as a pejorative (generally by people who already feel safe in their identity), it implies that causes like race, gender and sexual-orientation rights should be secondary to concerns that — so the argument goes — are more concrete and universal.
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WM: There was a real argument being made on Chappelle Show about poor black people and black street life that is usually treated with fear and terror, and any pejorative you can put on that, American popular culture basically did that.
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" In 1945, another interviewer asked Matisse about people "reproaching your art for being highly decorative, meaning that in the pejorative sense of superficial," to which the artist responded at length: "The decorative for a work of art is an extremely precious thing.
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"The only party that benefits from the political divisions and chaos as well as the weakening of the state and its institutions is Daesh," said Gyorgy Busztin, Deputy Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General, using a pejorative Arabic name for the group.
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"Since mid-2015, a significant rise in pejorative references to the Erdogan government in Islamic State propaganda has indicated Turkey is now in its cross hairs," Mr. Smith said, adding that this kind of rhetoric also preceded attacks in Western Europe and beyond.
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In the opposite corner from Jost, Marc Hetherington, a political scientist at Vanderbilt and a co-author of the 2009 book "Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics," said he has abandoned use of the word "authoritarian" because he views it as excessively pejorative.
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One of the most common descriptors for Bloomberg during his tenure as mayor was "imperious" and one of the labels most often applied to Sanders is "ideologue," while both pejorative, they imply two flavors of "my way or the highway" approaches to politics.
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" He told the Senate Judiciary Committee in May that he doesn't think the word spying is "pejorative," calling it "a good English word that in fact doesn't have synonyms because it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection.
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Mark Muro, a Brookings senior fellow, noted in an email: While the term "service sector" has become somewhat pejorative, with its ambience of lousy locally-traded food-service and maintenance jobs it also includes research services, education services, and professional services like consulting.
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During all of this I endured a tone of polite and sometimes not so polite pejorative dismissal (Oscar was quite polite for the most part, the hospital representatives less so), suggesting that it was my misunderstanding that was the source of the problem.
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The exhibition's title, Paper Promises, comes from a pejorative term used at the time for untrustworthy paper money, and the exhibition argues compellingly that the advent of paper photography in the US was slowed by fears that it would worsen the problem of counterfeiting.
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After Biden this week touted his ability to work with prominent segregationist senators in the 1970s, and quipped about the pejorative term "boy," Booker stepped in and spoke out on Wednesday, calling on Biden to apologize in a sharp rebuke of the former vice president.
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"The SJW are out in full this morning....the disappointment on your faces when I don't go to jail will be worth all your harassment...," the younger Flynn wrote, using an acronym for "social justice warriors," a pejorative often used in reference to liberals.
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The typical use of "pretentious" as a pejorative assumes that the pretentious person is uninterested in other people, and wants only to lord his rarefied tastes over the plebes; Fox, though, is trying to open up a conversation about art rather than shut it down.
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Seasons: 15Highest single-season earnings: $40.0 million (2018; included $27 million signing bonus)Championships: 0Pro Bowls: 3First-team All-Pro: 0One thing to know: Often referred to by the pejorative "game manager," Smith has led his team to the playoffs five times in seven years.
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This is why "millennial," in the mouth of an older person, often sounds pejorative: To them, we are an ocean of people demanding treatment no one before them ever received, and drastically reshaping everything in our path, from college campuses to the mattress industry.
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She was concerned at indications that voters with racist or far-right views might be attracted to one of them, Mr. Peter Casey, who caused controversy last week when he made what were widely perceived as pejorative remarks about Irish Travellers, a recognized ethnic minority.
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"I don't use vanity in any sort of pejorative way," he added, but rather to describe negotiations over issues like who will enter the arena first, how big the entourages will be and who will appear on the left and right sides of promotional posters.
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He stuck with this strategy into early adulthood — in 1969, a year after he won the United States Open, he jumped onto a court at a whites-only club in Florida, and was ordered off a moment later by a man spewing a racial pejorative.
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It used to be a pejorative, but in a more modern context, B-movie has become a term of endearment, a way to lavish praise on a piece of beloved art that, with more money and resources behind it, could have been even better.
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Instead, they're all collapsed into the pejorative term "Bernie Bro" —first used, as far as anyone can tell, by the Atlantic's Robinson Meyer in October — which has become popular in recent weeks both among Sanders's critics and (defensively and sarcastically) among his supporters themselves.
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Shadow banking, with its pejorative connotations, is a term the FSB no longer uses as it seeks to emphasise how the sector can provide valuable credit to the economy as banks rein in risk-taking to cut down on how much expensive capital they must hold.
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Mr Scharping had no real plans to form a coalition with the PDS (as it was then called), but the CDU only had to run posters showing red socks, a pejorative symbol of that party, hanging on a clothes line to put the frights up voters.
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Leta Hong Fincher, an author and academic, argues that state media have helped popularise the concept of "leftover women"—a pejorative term for unmarried females in their mid-20s and later—in an effort to panic educated, urban Chinese into settling down sooner than they otherwise would.
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"My issue is your use of 'stoner' as a rather pejorative term, whether derogatory or not, like the words 'faggot' or 'queer,'" one reader wrote me in an email, while accusing me of "painting all enjoyers with the abuser paint brush" and setting back the legalization movement.
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" You had to believe that Krennic survived the equivalent of a multiple hydrogen bomb blast — which may call back memories of when Indiana Jones did that in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by hiding in a Frigidaire, leading to the now-common pejorative "nuking the fridge.
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After August 3, we have to acknowledge that our current government structures and race relations are not only allowing these tragedies to happen but they are doing little to dispel the pejorative mainstream narratives about minority ethnic groups in the United States and the spaces we occupy.
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Letter To the Editor: In reading your May 1 editorial about President Barack Obama's remuneration for his Cantor Fitzgerald speech ("The Cost of a Speech"), I felt a bit put out by what seems to be a somewhat pejorative finger-pointing attitude toward his post-presidency.
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So when a film critic says a film is "like a video game," framed as a pejorative, free of additional context, I assume they have a very limited and calcified view of video games that is incongruous with a medium with an overwhelming variety and fluidity of forms.
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The authors have categorized the degree to which voters are fluid or fixed by answers to questions that have traditionally been used by sociologists and political scientists to identify levels of "authoritarianism" — with Hetherington and Weiler substituting the phrase "fixed worldview" for authoritarian in order to avoid pejorative implications.
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The Golden Knights' evolution from expansion darling to full-fledged juggernaut is reflected in the beginning to the pregame presentation: a series of pejorative quotes shown on the video screen and the ice about Vegas's viability as a hockey market and a franchise, spliced with bursts of highlights.
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Teachers are supplied with dictionaries to help them identify Arabic words used by the Islamic State such as "Dawla/Dawlah," a term used to describe the group by its supporters; the pejorative "kaffir/kuffar" to mean non-Muslims; and less obvious words like "rafidha," a derogatory term for Shiite Muslims.
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Venezuela "has alerted very clearly to the governments of the Cartel of Lima that, if they do not rectify their position (...) we will take the most crude and energetic measures that can be taken in diplomacy," Maduro, using a pejorative name for the group widely used by ruling Socialist Party leaders.
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Rabbi Avi Shafran, the director of public public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella organization for Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox groups, told Fox News that characterizations such as "gaming" are pejorative ways to describe a talent for perceiving opportunities that, for these communities, can yield government services.
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Mr. Cruz has been criticized for appearing to use "neo-con" as a pejorative, and for characterizing his foreign policy views as falling "somewhere in between" two polar extremes: the libertarianism of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and the hawkishness of Mr. McCain or Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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But to use the word "bubble" as a stand-alone pejorative is to focus on the ignorance inherent in a given worldview, rather than the insights; it's to examine ideological opponents and conclude that the only reason they could possibly believe what they do is because they haven't examined alternatives.
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Word of the Day adjective: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill adjective: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities adjective: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers verb: make perfect; bring to perfection verb: fulfill sexually _________ The word consummate has appeared in 112 articles on nytimes.
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Though Mr. Trump has not publicly used the phrase, allies and sympathetic news media outlets have repurposed "deep state" from its formal meaning — a network of civilian and military officials who control or undermine democratically elected governments — to a pejorative meant to accuse civil servants of illegitimacy and political animus.
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Although the moniker "witch" is often lobbied against women as a dig at best and a death sentence at worse — the paranoia of the Salem witch trials hangs over Sabrina down to the name of her iconic, no-longer-talking cat — here, our teen heroines are taking the pejorative back for themselves.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE (D-Mass.), with the familiar pejorative nickname "Pocahontas," a reference to her claim of Native American heritage.
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In my memory of the narratives in our history textbooks, there was little editorializing about how challenging postcolonial nation-building must have been, or how in the decade after independence, Chinese and Indian minorities were still regarded by the nativists within ethnic Malay communities as pendatang, a pejorative that simultaneously connoted newcomer and interloper.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's victory speech lacked a popular fixture of most of his boisterous campaign rallies--pejorative nicknames for his rivals.
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Abby Adams Westlake Ancram, N.Y. Changing Tunes Alex Ross, in his review of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's musical œuvre, takes exception to the pejorative cliché "That sounds like film music," arguing that the century-long history of soundtrack music has been too varied in style and instrumentation to deserve such lazy categorization (Musical Events, August 19th).
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Most recently, when Mr. Tillerson said he was seeking to open lines of communication with North Korea, Mr. Trump told Mr. Tillerson (and some 40 million Twitter followers) that the secretary was "wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man," Mr. Trump's pejorative nickname for Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader.
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Among the departed are Scott Pruitt, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, who once sought a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel, and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, who wasted more than $340,000 of taxpayer money on varieties of luxurious travel not usually enjoyed by "unelected bureaucrats," to use a pejorative term beloved by the right.
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" The editorial, co-written with NIDA's Volkow and another colleague, concluded, "It is clear that any harm that might occur because of the pejorative connotation of addiction would be completely outweighed by the tremendous harm that is now being done to patients who have needed medication withheld because their doctors believe they are addicted simply because they are dependent.
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Among the most consequential ideas is a proposal to shift the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a subsistence benefit that provides aid to 42 million poor and working Americans, from the Agriculture Department to a new mega-agency that would have "welfare" in its title — a term Mr. Trump uses as a pejorative catchall for most government benefit programs.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2628 The Memo: Pelosi-Trump trade deal provokes debate on left MORE (D-Mass.), referring to her as "Pocahontas," a pejorative term for Native Americans, and criticized her wealth tax proposal.
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The list is likely to provide ammunition to those in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party who have sought to tag Mr. Buttigieg with the pejorative "Wall Street Pete" and argued that his "Medicare for all who want it" health care proposal, which would preserve private health insurance, is a sop to the insurance companies.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DETROIT — I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the proto-tech days of letting one's freak flag fly, so when I say something is "weird," I sometimes have to remember, especially in the normalcy-loving Midwest, to offer the caveat that I do not mean it in a pejorative way.
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Long ago, when capturing video of the game you were playing was something only pros and highly motivated gamers (the term had not its current currency and was, at the time, pejorative or at least belittling) attempted to do, and with as little glory as attended such vocations and avocations at the time, there was special hardware just for doing so.
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It's far worse in polite society to use gay as a pejorative or throw around ethnic slurs than it is to go effing and blinding; people who would never be so dowdy as to asterisk out a good sharp fuck will still cautiously refer to it as the N-word rather than risking the subtleties of the use-mention distinction.
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Unaware of the pejorative connotations of the word "bimbo" in the United States (and Italy), the partners had innocently conjured up the name by combining the word "bingo," the American version of a popular Mexican game called loteria, and the name "Bambi," the wholesome white-tailed fawn featured in the 1918 Disney film — although the company's logo is a white, fluffy bear.
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"Although from a psychiatric perspective the term Pedophilia is intended to define a recognized clinical entity, in the collective consciousness of contemporary society, the term has become a demonizing pejorative," famed—if often the subject of scrutiny—researcher Fred S. Berlin, founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic, wrote in a 2014 paper in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
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Jacky RosenJacklyn (Jacky) Sheryl RosenHillicon Valley: Trump seeks review of Pentagon cloud-computing contract | FTC weighs updating kids' internet privacy rules | Schumer calls for FaceApp probe | Report says states need more money to secure elections Senators introduce legislation to boost cyber defense training in high school Key endorsements: A who's who in early states MORE, a Democratic challenger often skewered by Trump using a pejorative nickname (The Hill).
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