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In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit.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.

* Selfism, a pejorative term referring to any philosophy, doctrine, or tendency that upholds explicitly selfish principles as being desirable

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.

( 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 ).

* Brazilian Portuguese: negro and preto are neutral, nevertheless preto can be offensively used, is sometimes regarded as ' politically incorrect ' and almost never proudly used by afro-Brazilians, crioulo and macaco are always extremely pejorative

Stowe never meant Uncle Tom to be a derided name, but the term as a pejorative has developed based on how later versions of the character, stripped of his strength, were depicted on stage.

Chuck's rarely seen character disappeared without explanation in season two, giving rise to the pejorative term " Chuck Cunningham Syndrome " to describe TV characters simply disappearing from shows, to the point where later episodes of the show are scripted as if the character had never existed.

Albeit a Christian pejorative myth, it is and was never interpreted in Jewish jurisprudence to mean that a person who has injured the eye of another, literally had his own eye injured as punishment, or was instructed to pay the exact monetary value of an eye as compensation.

This pejorative use can be heard in the introduction of the 1930 George and Ira Gershwin song But Not For Me: " I never want to hear from any cheerful pollyannas / who tell me fate supplies a mate / that's all bananas.

To his credit, McManaman never spoke ill of the Galáctico policy's effects on him during his tenure, only critiquing the policy and ultimately describing it in his autobiography " El Macca " ( a book that was shortlisted as the William Hill Sports Book of the Year ), in 2004 as the " Disneyfication of Real Madrid " upon his departure from the club ; a piece of foresight that proved telling for the future as the club never reached its heights in the period ensuing with the policy, and with the term becoming somewhat pejorative to this day.

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.

Many of the actual C86 bands distanced themselves from the scene cultivated around them by the UK music press-in its time, C86 became a pejorative term for its associations with so-called " shambling " ( a John Peel-coined description celebrating the self-conscious primitive approach of some of the music ) and underachievement.

Testosterone poisoning is a pejorative neologism that refers not to actual poisoning, but to a negative perception of stereotypical aspects of male behavior.

The name " methodist " was a pejorative name given to a small society of students at Oxford who met together between 1729 and 1735 for the purpose of mutual improvement, given because of their methodistic habits.

" The Montoneros took their name from the pejorative term used by the 19th-century elite to discredit the mounted followers of the popular caudillos.

The Oromo were formerly called Galla by non-Oromo Ethiopians, and one may encounter this name in older texts, but it is considered a pejorative term.

The name has fallen into disfavor and is now considered to be pejorative, possibly because of a folk etymology for " Galla " ( that it came from Qal la or " قال لا ," pronounced similar to Gal la, Arabic for " he said no ") that implies they refused Muhammad's offer to convert to Islam.

In English, the red panda is also called lesser panda, though due to the pejorative implications of this name, " red " is generally preferred.

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.

In the published Silmarillion, the name Lindar was given as the name by which the Third Kindred referred to themselves, in preference to the somewhat pejorative name Teleri ( by that time in the evolution of Quenya meaning ' Stragglers ', ' Hindmost '), which is what the other Kindreds called them.

The female given name " Barbara " originally meant " a barbarian woman ", and as such was likely to have had a pejorative meaning — given that most such women in Graeco-Roman society were of a low social status ( often being slaves ).

Evidently, by her time ( about 300 AD according to Christian hagiography, though some historians put the story much later ) the name no longer had any specific ethnic or pejorative connotations.

Meanwhile, back in Graceville, the name " Conamara " became an insult, a pejorative term for a lazy, drunken failure.

the pejorative sense of the term boor, whose original meaning of " country person " or " farmer " is preserved in Dutch and Afrikaans boer and German Bauer, although the latter has its own pejorative connotations such as those prompting its use as the name for the chess piece known in English as a pawn ).

In response to the actions of concerned African American citizens of Williamsport, the pejorative name was formally changed by the Williamsport City Council in 1936.

Christians began to use the name of Mammon as a pejorative, a term that was used to describe gluttony and unjust worldly gain in Biblical literature.

Smith suggested a tribal name that was in origin pejorative, meaning " the cowards ", cognate to quake, Old Norse hvikari " coward ".

Robinson later told reporters when he was a child, his uncle christened him " Smokey Joe ", which Robinson assumed was a " cowboy name for me " until he was later told that smokey was a pejorative term for dark-skinned Blacks.

The origin of the name " Jim Crow " is obscure but may have evolved from the use of the pejorative " crow " to refer to African Americans in the 1730s.

Naturally, today the name Niam-Niam is considered pejorative.

Speakers of this language generally consider the name " Thai Yuan " to be pejorative.

The group rejects this name and its associated legends as pejorative.