pejorative

But "fat" is only pejorative when we allow places like the sun bar to tell us that being fat somehow makes us less of a person.

"Eye candy" -- sort of pejorative, don't you think?

Jargon is inappropriate, whether elevated, as in specialized technical language, or demeaning, as in a pejorative gibe.

Soldiers invent "mildly pejorative terms" to help them blow off steam, Adams says.

Because he was small, and little man in four characters two characters " small" is a pejorative term.

Many use the term myth in a pejorative sense to mean that the stories described are not factually true.

For my father, who saved or gave away so much of his modest income, the ultimate pejorative was "big spender. "

I find the whole slant of this article pejorative and misleading.

Although the term "pyramid" may sound rather pejorative, it is true of all pension schemes.

Yet we need not be readers of Ruskin to know that competition also has a pejorative sense, even in American usage.

Because it's cheap, in the pejorative sense, as well as inexpensive.

We don't call Social Security "welfare" because it's a pejorative term and politicians don't want to offend.

I balked at that statement because I refuse to accept the belief that work is a pejorative.

Compound A concession to something detrimental or pejorative