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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。
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”。
In more recent years, at least judging from a search of the Post archives, cads, thugs, molesters, and swindlers have most frequently elicited what the paper might call the porcine pejorative.
在最近的这些年里，至少从对档案的数据库可以判断出，新闻报纸上更会经常使用像猪一样的这个轻蔑的词来指代无赖，恶棍，猥亵犯，骗子这类人。

But the difference - it has assumed a pejorative meaning, just like the proverbial...
NPR: Words Matter: Terms of Global Conflict Debated
But it was also just good journalism to discontinue the use of a needless pejorative term.
FORBES: Language, Politics, and Journalistic Objectivity
But ideology is just a pejorative word for principles in which you happen not to believe.
ECONOMIST: Lexington

expressing disapproval, or suggesting that something is not good or is of no importance

A pejorative word or expression is one that expresses criticism of someone or something.