Similarly, in modern, colloquial Portuguese, the term " Mouro " was primarily used as a designation for North Africans and secondarily as a derogatory and ironic term by northern Portuguese to refer to the inhabitants of the southern parts of the country ( Lisbon, Alentejo and Algarve ).

The term " civilized " as applied in this case has been considered at various times and places ( for example in the writings of Vine Deloria, Jr .) as insulting or derogatory, as implying that other Native American tribes were " not civilized " and that the five tribes could only earn the designation of being " civilized " to the extent they took up the cultural values and ways of the European Americans.

This term is used by practitioners as an indication of mathematical sophistication ( or possession of a deeper perspective ) rather than as a derogatory designation.

One complaint filed stated: “ The term ‘ redskin ’ was and is a pejorative, derogatory, denigrating, offensive, scandalous, contemptuous, disreputable, disparaging and racist designation for a Native American person .” Despite these attempts, " redskin " continues to be used as an NFL name.

The designation of post-Zionist has been used in a derogatory manner to describe those whose opinions take them outside the Zionist movement.

" Bolo " was used as derogatory expression for Bolsheviks used by British service personnel in the North Russian Expeditionary Force which intervened against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

However, members of these professions typically possess other software engineering skills, beyond programming ; for this reason, the term programmer is sometimes considered an insulting or derogatory oversimplification of these other professions.

The Mexican archeologist and anthropologist Manuel Gamio reported in 1930 that the term " chicamo " ( with an " m ") was used as a derogatory term used by Hispanic Texans for recently arrived Mexican immigrants displaced during the Mexican revolution in the beginning of the early 20th century.

Chardonnay socialist is a derogatory Australasian term used to describe those on the political left with comfortable middle or upper-class incomes, tertiary education, and a penchant for the finer things in life, Chardonnay being a form of white wine for example.

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

A derogatory term for a replicant is " skin-job ," a term heard again extensively in Battlestar Galactica.

The game features a wide range of monsters, some of which are aliens, other mutated humans ( the LAPD has been turned into " Pig-cops ", a play on the derogatory term " pig " for police officers, with LARD emblazoned on their uniforms ).

Park alleged that the initial in “ G-20 ” sounds like the Korean word for “ rat ” however Korean government prosecutors alleged that Mr. Park was making a derogatory statement about President of ROK Lee Myung-bak, the host of the summit.

It originated from the exploitation of cheap Indian labour which was justified by a variety of derogatory myths concerning Indian capacity for change, work, and accepting civic responsibilities.

Some contend that the term " Christian " was first coined as a derogatory term, meaning " little Christs ", and was meant as a mockery, a term of derision for those that followed the teachings of Jesus.

Jacqueline Kennedy recalled that Hoover told President John F. Kennedy that King tried to arrange a sex party while in the capital for the March on Washington and told Robert Kennedy that King made derogatory comments during the President's funeral.

The term applied to the indentured during this period, and which has since become a derogatory term for Mauritians of Asian descent, was Coolie.

Jenkins mentions use of the word in book titles including Life among the Moonies and Escape from the Moonies, and comments: " These titles further illustrate how the derogatory term ' Moonie ' became a standard for members of this denomination, in a way that would have been inconceivable for any of the insulting epithets that could be applied to, say, Catholics or Jews.

Comparison of the Mormon and Muslim prophets still occurs today, sometimes for derogatory or polemical reasons but also for more scholarly ( and neutral ) purposes.

This and her taste for splendor inspired the derogatory nickname " Queen Nancy ".

The derogatory term rabiblanco (" white tail "), of uncertain origin, has been used for generations to refer to the usually Caucasian members of the elite families.

However, members of these professions typically possess other software engineering skills, beyond programming ; for this reason, the term programmer is sometimes considered an insulting or derogatory oversimplification of these other professions.

Thus, the derogatory meaning of the word " myth " is the traditional Christian meaning, and the expression " Christian mythology ", as used in academic discourse, may offend Christians for this reason.

A derogatory term for a replicant is " skin-job.

With the diffusion of the term slowenisch for the Slovene language and Slowenen for Slovenes, the words windisch and Winde or Wende became derogatory in connotation.

H. L. Mencken explained the derogatory term John Cheese was often applied to the early Dutch colonists, who were famous for their cheeses.

His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

American scholar David Bordwell has spoken against many prominent developments film theory since the 1970s, i. e., he uses the humorously derogatory term " SLAB theory " to refer to film studies based on the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and / or Barthes.

ISDN has long been known by derogatory backronyms highlighting these issues, such as It Still Does Nothing, Innovations Subscribers Don't Need, and I Still Don't kNow.

" Nerd " is a derogatory, stereotypical term, but as with other pejoratives, it has been recaimed and redefined by some as a term of pride and group identity.

In the late 20th century the appellation of prophet has been used to refer to individuals particularly successful at analysis in the field of economics, such as in the derogatory prophet of greed.

This has earned them the derogatory name of " spoonheads.

In the beginning the term was used in a derogatory sense, but over time it has become accepted as descriptive.

He denied the term " farce " was derogatory, or even lacking in seriousness, and said " It is of nonsense all compact, and better nonsense, I think, our stage has not seen.

" Vedda " has been used in Sri Lanka to mean not only hunter-gatherers, but also to refer to any people who adopt an unsettled and rural way of life and thus can be a derogatory term not based on ethnic group.

The term piece of shit is generally used to classify a product or service as being sufficiently below the writer's understanding of generally accepted quality standards to be of negligible and perhaps even negative value. The term piece of shit has greater precision than shit or shitty in that piece of shit identifies the low quality of a specific component or output of a process without applying a derogatory slant to the entire process.

The first known usage of the term hashishi has been traced back to 1122 when the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir employed it in derogatory reference to the Syrian Nizaris.

As a derogatory term for women, it has been in use since the fourteenth or fifteenth century.

It has since been used as a derogatory term that relates to English people.

To those who see the tradition as constantly evolving and supplying answers to question that it itself has raised, the argument that there would be no reason to develop and transmit material which seems derogatory of the Prophet or of Islam is too simple.

This secondary translation has become dominant today, but the intention of such terminology substitution was highly suspected to politically defame Hu for the term 實用 had been evolved into a derogatory sense.

The water that collects is often noxious, and " bilge water " or just " bilge " has thus become a derogatory colloquial term used to refer to something bad, fouled, or otherwise offensive.

While " ghetto " as an adjective can be used derogatorily, the African American community, particularly the hip hop scene, has taken the word for themselves and begun using it in a more positive sense that transcends its derogatory origins.

The critic Reyner Banham erroneously dubbed the Smithsons ' pared-down style " the New Brutalism ": Hunstanton doesn't fit this description, which has become a derogatory term, although it is clear that the rigorous Modernism of Hunstanton School is in stark contrast to the more gentle, European tradition that had characterised the Festival of Britain.

In part, due to misunderstandings about how deferent / epicycle models worked, " adding epicycles " has come to be used as a derogatory comment in modern scientific discussion.

Antiquaries had always attracted a degree of ridicule ( see below ), and since the mid-19th century the term has tended to be used most commonly in negative or derogatory contexts.