pejorative

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• Yet we need not be readers of Ruskin to know that competition also has a pejorative sense, even in American usage.(然而，我们就是不读拉斯金的书也知道，竞争也是带有贬意的，哪怕是在美语的用法中也是这样。)
• He refused to use the word intelligentsia, engineering instead the ugly and pejorative obrazovanshchina, roughly "educatedness".(他拒绝使用”知识界”（intelligentsia）一词来描述他们，而自造出一个语含轻蔑的贬义词，”obrazovanshchina”，意思基本等于”识字的”。)
• I didn't know it would be a pejorative.(我当时不知道这会带有负面意义。)
• Really – that was the root cause (although the pejorative is only there because I wanted to use the quotation attributed to Bill Clinton’s 1992 election campaign).(的确-这就是问题根源(尽管我想引用克林顿1992年竞选宣言))
• Soldiers invent "mildly pejorative terms" to help them blow off steam, Adams says.(亚当斯说，战士们发明的“轻度贬义词”帮助他们对于没能得到足够好的装备而发泄不满和怨气。)
• For my father, who saved or gave away so much of his modest income, the ultimate pejorative was "big spender."(我的父亲，为了他收入不高的工作保留和放弃很多，这样做的根本就是他是一个巨大的挥霍者。)
• I'm using the word 'academic' here in a pejorative sense.(我这里使用的“学术”一词是贬义的。)
• Although often referred to as "Gypsies", most of them prefer to be called by the name Roma, believing the word "Gypsy" bears pejorative connotations.(但大多数罗姆人认为“吉普赛”这个名字有歧视意义，而更愿意被称作“罗姆人”。)
• I balked at that statement because I refuse to accept the belief that work is a pejorative.(我拒绝这个说法，因为我不愿接受工作含有贬义的看法。)
• A pejorative term for what companies can pull off with a clever copy writer, some nice graphics, and a bit of an advertising budget.(贬义词，指那些获得了一名聪明拷贝作家、一些漂亮图片以及一点点广告预算的公司。)