(a.) Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concept of "polypharmacy", a pejorative and meaningless term, nevertheless gave rise to useful surveys on combined drug use, to methods of monitoring and controlling multiple drug use, and to a small number of studies which imply that a few psychoactive drug-drug combinations are rational.
(2) The radiological analysis of femoro-tibial compartments in comparison with the non operative side showed a clear pejorative difference in one case, moderate in 5 without incriminating the morphological type.
(3) That is a pejorative accusation, that’s not the phrase that I would use to describe what I read about this week,” Kaine said.
(4) At the beginning, David Cameron spoke respectfully of "President Mubarak" and the "Egyptian government"; by this weekend, the prime minister is using the much more pejorative "regime" to describe the crumbling autocracy.
(5) Sudden, unpredictable mood swings are common and there is a greater tendency for their physicians to diagnose personality disorders, often in pejorative terms.
(6) Three factors were found to be statistically significant: adjuvant hormonotherapy, loco-regional metastases, adjuvant adriamycin containing regimen (pejorative prognostic factor).
(7) He also memorably attacked Obama for investing $90bn on "green energy" – a phrase delivered as a pejorative.
(8) Lymph node involvement appeared to be the most pejorative factor (p < or = 10(-5)).
(9) He said the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday had also signed up to the editors' code of practice, which states that pejorative references to someone's sexuality must be avoided.
(10) Steven Hughes says that Talking Man is Steve Wilson: "And I wish he'd stop Lawrenson using 'sad', as a pejorative term, when 'Lawro' talks about all the ephemera that surrounds football - like statistics and such.
(11) (You need to know that "dog" is pejorative slang in America for an ill-favoured woman).
(12) A multifactorial analysis enabled us to quantify the pejorative impact on fertility of each of the factors which significantly affect the fertility results.
(13) Jeremy Clarkson , put on final warning by the BBC earlier this year, deliberately used a pejorative racial term to refer to an Asian man on BBC2’s Top Gear, causing offence without justification and breaching broadcasting rules.
(14) As far as irreducible tinnitus are concerned, as anxiety is the most pejorative parameter, not discouraging the patient is very important.
(15) The description of east Jerusalem as ‘occupied east Jerusalem’ is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful,” Brandis told the Senate estimates hearing.
(16) Society's negative and pejorative attitude toward the disabled is discussed to explain the psychological trauma associated with any first or second disability.
(17) Lebanese band the Great Departed use oudh music and untranslatable cultural references to target Isis – “Daesh” in the pejorative Arabic term – to side-splitting laughter in Beirut nightclubs.
(18) "However, the court did not appreciate that when national newspapers make repeated irrelevant references to my sexuality – particularly in the context of pejorative and stereotypical reference to appearance – it amounts to the same kind of mocking which the court has confirmed is unacceptable.
(19) According to pastor Joy, among themselves party members often use the pejorative expression yang jiao to designate Christianity.
(20) It makes the point that the term "hung parliament" is pejorative, even though many would argue that there is a lot to be said for no one party having an overall majority.
Turd
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A Peperami looks almost exactly like a long dried turd.
(2) If My Little Pony produced turds, then these would be they.
(3) So we decided to just back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.” Parker has previously referred to Trump and Clinton as “the giant douche and the turd sandwich” .
(4) For more than a decade, he was leader of the fractious Socialist party, where he once reportedly likened the constant task of calming of ego spats and political rows to clearing up dog turds.
(5) 'A little turd' by Edwina Currie, and the 'sleazeball's sleazeball' by David Mellor, which is almost enough to make you warm to him.
(6) In a recent cartoon he criticised the regime's offers of reforms, with a picture of an official with rosebuds in his speech bubble – and a turd in his head.
(7) For one senior lawyer, the former Law Society chief Robert Sayer, his public designation of one rival as "a dog turd" plainly has no bearing on his current work at Sayer Moore & Co solicitors.
(8) 8.19pm BST Howard's not even listening he's just looking at his fruity turd.
(9) Trump may say misogynist things, but other Republican candidates do them | Jessica Valenti Read more It’s true, like his fans have said , that the turds hurtling out of Trump’s mouth-hole aren’t created by committee and vetted by a campaign operative (though Nixonian dirty trickster Roger Simon says he tried ).
(10) Then we can remind everyone to wear shoes and sandals when they go to the toilet … and to wash their hands.” • World toilet day: public poo, crap compost and a golden turd – in pictures
(11) Doubtless fans of experimental music, hysteria and exaggeration have read of the weekend event’s other problems, the final turd blockage in the U-bend of its cash flow being the caught-on-CCTV vandalism of an arcade machine by a person who had gained access to the site by pretending to be a member of the Fall’s entourage.
(12) If I'm in a really bad mood it looks like a huge glass turd planted near the edge of the road.
(13) Addressing the public relations audience, Walker said: "People outside the communications industry sometimes think that it is possible to spin anything – that the proverbial turd can indeed be polished, if you'll pardon the metaphor.
(14) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
(15) Naturally, my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big, full of words words words birds turds.
(16) Those handy “don’t get raped tips” that keep turning up on the internet like bad bitcoin are just more kangaroo turds for the pile that Western women are expected to carry around in our heads all the time.
(17) It would be easy to mock those involved – to accompany Marianne's tutu-appliquéing activities with a comedy trombone, perhaps, or to let us know that it's all a bit infradig by filming Martin unknowingly treading on a turd, then following him as he tramples it around the Northern line.
(18) Towards the end of the meal, I stepped into the men's room to pee and there, disintegrating in the western-style toilet, was an unflushed turd, a little reminder saying, "See, you're still in China!"
(19) They look like the turds of an animal who has been eating whole peppercorns.
(20) With a name so redolent of turd, Mr Murdstone was not a man to whom I warmed and I was not at all unhappy when my mother sent me to stay with Peggotty for a fortnight.