pejorative
adjective
[ pɪˈdʒɒrətɪv ]
• expressing contempt or disapproval.
• "permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term"
Similar:
disparaging,
derogatory,
denigratory,
deprecatory,
defamatory,
slanderous,
libellous,
abusive,
insulting,
slighting,
vituperative,
disapproving,
contemptuous,
bitchy,
invective,
contumelious,
pejorative
noun
• a word expressing contempt or disapproval.
• "most of what he said was inflammatory and filled with pejoratives"
Origin:
late 19th century: from French péjoratif, -ive, from late Latin pejorare ‘make worse’, from Latin pejor ‘worse’.
