Pejorative Quotes

“Wikipedia: Pejorative”

“What is odd is how fairly quickly the concept of geek has moved from pejorative to almost complimentary.”

“There may be exceptional circumstances when anonymous pejorative quotes paraphrase anonymous pejorative quotes”

“Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.”

“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.”

“Fan is a widely admired figure in Britain, atleast among men. Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.”

“Most students had heard pejorative references to patients, but few thought the practice useful. Monitoring such usage may help identify individual or institutional problems and lead to better management strategies for certain subgroups of patients.”

“Say what you mean, and mean what you say because the words that you choose matter. When you use 'gay' in a pejorative way, the effect that it has on the gay kid in the room or the kid with gay relatives is that being gay is less than or inferior to. [BASED]”

“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”

“That reference to Holy Rollers — a possibly pejorative term that certainly won't endear him to the religious right — is one reason O’Reilly can be such a fascinating figure to some gay activists.”

“And while he's been described by what has become a pejorative for quarterbacks - "game manager" - he's really done more than that.”

“There seems to be justification for assuming that Theophrastus employed the term in a pejorative sense of "pedant", but we should adhere to the positive meaning “scholastic”.”

“We should be honest about our sources, even if we can't name them. The New York Times policy on pejorative quotes is worth bearing in mind: The vivid language of direct quotation confers an unfair advantage on a speaker or writer who hides behind the newspaper, and turns of phrase are valueless to a reader who cannot assess the source.”

“We understand the inappropriateness of these pejorative quotes; nonetheless, although distasteful, we believe that the reactions of these unfortunate spirits interned in sanatorium-like or purgatorial regions must appear in the present account so that we may not evade the truth.”

“The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.”

“While terms such as 'soft news', 'dumbing down', 'tabloidisation' or 'commercialisation' are often pejoratively invoked to describe an approach or style of journalism, it is less clear what these values actually are...”

“Worse, the term tends to be pejorative and is certainly murky. It refers most properly these days to the popular, Hindi-language, song-and-dance extravaganzas produced by studios based in Mumbai.”

“As Germany prepares for national elections in September, Merkel has dropped the language of freedom entirely. Instead, she talks about solidarity, justice and security. It is as if freedom had become a pejorative term, especially in the context of the global financial crisis.”

“Scholars who study cults (or, as many prefer to call them by the less pejorative term, “New Religious Movements”) explain that there is no simple answer to the question “Who joins cults?” The only consistent variable seems to be age—young .people are likely to join the cults than older people.”

“Group-specific policy focusing on special services and resources for disability category members logically follows from corporeal medical-diagnostic definitions of disability. In opposition, however, to what was perceived as a pejorative, the distal view of disability indicts social, cultural, and other environmental influences as disabling factors regardless of one’s body.”