Crossword-Solution: PEJORATIVE 10 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

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Pejorative a. Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging;
unfavorable.

We have 16 clues for the answer “PEJORATIVE”

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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.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality {freeware} circulated by user's groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
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.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
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.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
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.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

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…
Leigh Brackett The Best of Planet Stories 1
(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.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless and Hopeful: An Introduction on Polyamory
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.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
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