Crossword-Solution: PEJORATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Pejorative | a. | Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “PEJORATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| A disparaging word, such as poetaster. | 1 answer |
| depreciatory word | 1 answer |
| Cussed | 19 answers |
| bowelless | 20 answers |
| out of humour | 23 answers |
| out of humor | 26 answers |
| working ill | 27 answers |
| depreciatory | 34 answers |
| depreciating | 36 answers |
| taunting | 37 answers |
| Belittling. | 42 answers |
| Irreverent | 50 answers |
| Acid | 54 answers |
| hardened | 54 answers |
| deprecatory | 58 answers |
| Disparaging | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
RCTOEEL
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with PEJORATIVE (5)
Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself.
Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality {freeware} circulated by user's groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server.
Pejorative name for some versions of the {GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL), which requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same counter-commercial terms as GNU stuff.
This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually used reflexively: "Oh, I'm just lurking." Often used in `the lurkers', the hypothetical audience for the group's {flamage}-emitting regulars.
Quotes with PEJORATIVE (3)
Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving great acclaim, and each and every one of them can be expected to write at least one article stating flatly that the day of space opera is over and done, thank goodness, and that henceforth these crude tales of interplanetary nonsense will be replaced by whatever type of story that w…
(In reference to swingers) In the meantime, if you wish to declare yourself polyamorous, get used to the fact that the confusion is gong to remain as a pejorative. Sure, clear up the misunderstanding as much as you can, but don't put too much effort into setting yourself up as a "good", responsible, community-oriented polyamorist by contrasting yourself to the "bad" swingers - they may not be your siblings, but they're definitely your cousins.
So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense, which means to live a natural life, one in which the criatura, creature, has innate integrity and healthy boundaries. These words, wild and woman, cause women to remember who they are and what they are about. They create a metaphor to describe the force which funds all females. They personify a force that women cannot live without.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1959–2013).