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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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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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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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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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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"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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Zionist as a pejorative or Zio (/ˈzaɪoʊ/ ZY-oh) is a term commonly used by "anti-Zionists" as described by academics, political parties and civil rights...
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A pejorative suffix is a suffix that attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the...
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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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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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"Ugly American" is a stereotype depicting American citizens as exhibiting loud, arrogant, self-absorbed, demeaning, thoughtless, ignorant, and ethnocentric...
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Junkie (redirect from Junkie (pejorative))
junky in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Junkie, a term often used as a pejorative referring to a person with an addiction, may refer to: Junkie (novel)...
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Karen (slang) (redirect from Karen (pejorative))
birdwatching incident[needs context] in 2020. The term has been considered pejorative by those who believe it is racist, sexist, ageist, classist, and controlling...
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Cult (redirect from Cult (pejorative))
ascribed to cults. The term has different, and sometimes divergent or pejorative, definitions both in popular culture and academia and has been an ongoing...
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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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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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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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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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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, formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora...
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Pejorative term describing someone uncivilized...
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Eskimo (redirect from Eskimo (pejorative))
individuals consider the term Eskimo, which is of a disputed etymology, to be pejorative or even offensive. Eskimo continues to be used within a historical, linguistic...
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(pejorative) Ayr Ayr-souls (pejorative) Bacup Buttercups, Turd-bakers (pejorative) Bagshot Shitbags (pejorative) Baldock Baldricks (pejorative, after a scruffy little...
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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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(mainly in Britain) to describe a fire service, can also be used as a pejorative collective noun to describe an informal group of like-minded individuals...
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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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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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