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   Pe·jo·ra·tive

   /pəˈjôrədiv/

   

   adjective

   • 1. expressing contempt or disapproval: "permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term"

   noun

   • 1. a word expressing contempt or disapproval: "most of what he said was inflammatory and filled with pejoratives"

   Word Origin late 19th century: from French péjoratif, -ive, from late Latin pejorare ‘make worse’, from Latin pejor ‘worse’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pejoratively adverb

   Scrabble Points: 22

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • J

     8

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

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