Translation for 'pejorative' from English to Finnish

pejorative <pej.>

pejoratiivinen {adj}

halventava {adj} <halv.>

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pejorative

haukkumasana {noun}kiel.

• The term "Matakam" is traditionally seen as pejorative.
• Jesus freak is a pejorative term for Christians.
• The Catalan language has pejorative suffixes.
• A "reclaimed" or "reappropriated" word is a word that was at one time pejorative but has been brought back into acceptable usage, usually starting within its original target, i.e.
• "Katsapy" (sing. "Katsap") is a Ukrainian pejorative name for ethnic Russians.

• Clericalism is usually, if not always, used in a pejorative sense.
• "Uomo" (man), coming from Latin "homo", becomes "om-" in altered forms: "omino"/"ometto" (diminutive), "omone" (augmentative), "omaccio" (pejorative), "omaccione" (augmentative + pejorative).
• In modern times "huinca" has been used as a pejorative.
• WordNet includes words that can be perceived as pejorative or offensive.
• Yobaz is a pejorative Turkish term meaning bigot.

• The term continued to be used as a pejorative by conservative pro-segregationist southerners well into the 20th century.
• Some publications avoid the term under the misapprehension that "Lolo" is pejorative, but it is the Chinese rendition of the autonym of the Yi people and is pejorative only when it is written with a particular Chinese character (one that uses a beast, rather than a human, radical), a practice that was prohibited by the Chinese government in the 1950s.
• Wanker is a pejorative term.
• While the English word usually has a pejorative connotation, the Chinese word "xuānchuán" (宣传 "propaganda; publicity") can have either a neutral connotation in official PRC contexts or a pejorative one in informal contexts.
• In Polish the words [...] have been described as neutral and non-pejorative, however there exist numerous derivatives, some of which can be pejorative, such as "żydzisko".