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Use of the word " artiste " can also be a pejorative term.
" Black and Tan " or " Tan " remains a pejorative term for the British in Ireland, and they are still despised by many in Ireland.
The inhabitants were also known, by the ancient Romans, with the pejorative term latrones mastrucati, which means " thieves with a rough garment in wool ".
Outside of Mexican-American communities, the term has been considered pejorative and takes on subjective view but usually consists of one or more of the following elements.
The term is also commonly used as a pejorative to criticize the use of clever but unsound reasoning ( alleging implicitly the inconsistent — or outright specious — misapplication of rule to instance ), especially in relation to moral questions ( see sophistry ).
The term casuistry quickly became pejorative with Blaise Pascal's attack on the misuse of casuistry.
The term is usually used in a pejorative sense, often in conjunction with a call to reject such influence.
Moser and Catley explain, " In America, ' liberal ' means left-of-center, and it is a pejorative term when used by conservatives in adversarial political debate.
* Crank ( person ), a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.
Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).
In the United States, the term " Darwinism " is often used by creationists as a pejorative term in reference to beliefs such as atheistic naturalism, but in the United Kingdom the term has no negative connotations, being freely used as a short hand for the body of theory dealing with evolution, and in particular, evolution by natural selection.
In this sense, it is similar to the pejorative connotations that have likewise arisen with the term tyrant.
In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit.
Nevertheless, it is commonly felt in Canada and Greenland that the term Eskimo is pejorative.
In Canada and Greenland the term Eskimo is widely held to be pejorative and has fallen out of favour, largely supplanted by the term Inuit.
Those described as wandering bishops often see the term as pejorative.
* Tall poppy syndrome a pejorative term used in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
During the preservation / conservation debate the term preservationist become to be seen as a pejorative term.

pejorative and referring
Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II, the term fascist has been used as a pejorative word, often referring to widely varying movements across the political spectrum.
The programmer subculture of hackers disassociates from the mass media's pejorative use of the word ' hacker ' referring to computer security, and usually prefer the term ' cracker ' for that meaning.
( The term pantelism comes from two Greek roots: παν ( pan ), " everything ", and τελ-( tel -), referring to completion — another attempted pejorative label that never caught on ).
The historical usage of the term sect in Christendom has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox.
The historical usage of the term sect in Christendom has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox.
Security through obscurity is a pejorative referring to a principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy of design or implementation to provide security.
White trash is an American English pejorative term referring to poor white people in the United States, especially in the rural South, suggesting lower social class and degraded living standards.
Maoism broke with the state capitalist framework of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and dismisses it as modern revisionism, a traditional pejorative term among communists referring to those who fight for capitalism in the name of socialism.
Limey is an old slang nickname, often pejorative, for the British, originally referring to their sailors.
Another nickname from that era is " da joenk ", a Brabantian dialect expression meaning " that kid " ( in a pejorative sense, referring to his rather iconoclastic and immature style ).
The current pejorative sense, referring to a flawed or disingenuous work of historiography, is found in another 1815 attestation.
The term may have a pejorative sense referring to corrupt political machines.
* Helengrad ( pejorative term for New Zealand's capital city ( Wellington ), referring to Helen Clark )
* People's Republic of Kalifornia, a pejorative term referring to California's political environment
* A term which is frequently, but not exclusively, pejorative, referring to a lazy person.
The word " macumba " is frequently used in Brazil to refer to any ritual or religion of African origin ( as slang ), and although its use by non-practitioners remains largely pejorative in intent ( referring to all sorts of religious ( or otherwise ) superstitions and luck-related rituals and beliefs ), and is considered offensive, its use among actual practitioners is not viewed negatively.
Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to a situation in which a seller prices goods or commodities much higher than is considered reasonable or fair.
These people use the pejorative term " slags " or " spongeheads " or " rubberheads " when referring to these interstellar refugees, who in turn derogatorily call humans " terts.
The name was adopted with a pejorative tone by the Spaniards when referring especially to the semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples of northern Mexico.
Other notable Falkland island terms are the words " kelper " meaning a Falkland islander, from the kelp surrounding the islands ( sometimes considered pejorative ); and " smoko " referring to a smoking break.
* White trash, an American English pejorative term referring to individual or groups of lower social class Caucasian people that the speaker considers to lack social status
* Londonistan ( term )-A pejorative sobriquet referring to the British capital of London.
It can be used as a pejorative term, referring to someone who engages in cronyism among men who have known each other for a long period of time.

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