A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or...
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r-slur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In typical usage, retard is a pejorative term either for someone with an actual mental disability, or for someone...
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Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity List of common nouns derived from ethnic...
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Schmuck, or shmuck, is a pejorative term meaning one who is stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word came into the...
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"millie (pejorative)", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "millie" You can also: Search for Millie (pejorative) in Wikipedia...
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Zio (/ˈzaɪoʊ/ ZY-oh) is a pejorative term for Zionists, commonly used by anti-Zionists. The term is perceived by some as antisemitic, including the American...
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List of terms used for Germans (redirect from Pejorative terms for Germans)
examples are Bavarians and Brandenburgers. Some terms are humorous or pejorative slang, and used mainly by people from other countries, although they can...
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Tick, often also as the plural ticks, is a common term used in Germany's right-wing extremist environment to degrade and insult those who think differently...
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Cracker (term) (redirect from Cracker (pejorative))
poor rural whites in the Southern United States. Although commonly a pejorative, it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a...
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Gay (section Generalized pejorative use)
commonly used to refer specifically to men. At about the same time, a new, pejorative use became prevalent in some parts of the world. Among younger speakers...
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Faggot (redirect from Fag (pejorative))
film, music, and the internet. The first recorded use of faggot as a pejorative term for gay men was in the 1914 A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang, while...
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non-physical bashing, the term is normally used with the intention of having a pejorative effect on the identified bashers by comparing them to perpetrators of...
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Orc (slang) (redirect from Orc (pejorative slang term))
орк, romanised: ork), plural orcs (Russian and Ukrainian: орки), is a pejorative commonly used by many Ukrainians to refer to a Russian soldier participating...
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Cult (redirect from Cult (pejorative))
self-appointed leader who tightly controls its members. It is in some contexts a pejorative term, also used for new religious movements and other social groups which...
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Woke (redirect from Woke (pejorative))
Dictionary in 2017. By 2019, the term was being used sarcastically as a pejorative among many on the political right and some centrists in Western countries...
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Savage is a derogatory term to describe a person or people the speaker regards as primitive and uncivilized. It has predominantly been used to describe...
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Karen (slang) (redirect from Karen (pejorative))
Central Park birdwatching incident in 2020. The term has been considered pejorative by those who believe it is racist, sexist, ageist, classist, and controlling...
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descent. Coon (US and UK) originally used by Europeans/white people as a pejorative term for a black person. Possibly from Portuguese barracos, a building...
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Democrat Party (epithet) (redirect from Democrat Party (pejorative))
Democrat Party is an epithet and pejorative for the Democratic Party of the United States, often used in a disparaging fashion by the party's opponents...
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appearance. Perversely, Atkins embodies the opposite traits from the pejorative traits now popularly associated with the term "Ugly American". Atkins's...
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Junkie (redirect from Junkie (pejorative))
Junkie is a pejorative usually referring to a person with an addiction. Look up Junkie, Junkies, junkie, junkies, or junky in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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List of ethnic slurs (redirect from Frog (pejorative))
ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner. Some of the terms listed below (such as...
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Dragonslayer (1981 film) (redirect from Vermithrax Pejorative)
a young wizard encounters challenges as he hunts a dragon, Vermithrax Pejorative. It is the second joint production between Paramount and Disney, after...
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Eskimo (redirect from Eskimo (pejorative))
term Eskimo, which is of a disputed etymology, to be offensive and even pejorative. Eskimo continues to be used within a historical, linguistic, archaeological...
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Semantic change (redirect from Pejorative change)
Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is a form of language change regarding the evolution...
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Chetniks (redirect from Četnik (pejorative))
The Chetniks (Serbo-Croatian: Четници, Četnici, pronounced [tʃɛ̂tniːtsi]; Slovene: Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and...
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Queer (section Early pejorative use)
cisgender. Originally meaning 'strange' or 'peculiar', queer came to be used pejoratively against LGBT people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer...
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Some historical Chinese characters for non-Han peoples were graphically pejorative ethnic slurs, where the racial insult derived not from the Chinese word...
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Gonk (redirect from Gonk (pejorative))
Gonks are novelty toys and collectibles originating from the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Created by English inventor Robert Benson, the toys gained popularity...
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Anti-Croat sentiment (redirect from Ustaša (pejorative))
Anti-Croat sentiment or Croatophobia (Croatian: Hrvatofobija) is discrimination or prejudice against Croats as an ethnic group, also consisting of negative...
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