De l’ethnonyme « tzigane » et des pièges du politiquement correct by Kléo Protohristova

“…In no Bulgarian dictionary, however, has the exonym циганин (“Gypsy”) been associated with pejorative meaning, and, on numerous occasions, the Gypsies themselves use the traditional ethnonym for self-appellation. …”
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Racial slurs in dictionaries by Farid, G

“…Are racial slurs and pejorative words expressed by abusive ethnic designations in the French language pertinent in a dictionary? …”

Online Dictionary Use Preferences and Lexical Semantics Issues Encountering Saudi EFL Learners in Arabic–English Translation by Sayed M. Ismail, Fahd Shehail Alalwi

“…These concerns have been often reflected when students are requested to translate texts embedded with polysemous, homonymous, and pejorative lexical items, which are extensively used in Arabic texts. …”
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Negativity in Filmonyms Translation: Interpretative Transformation or the Transformation of the Mind? by S. A. Pankratova

“…This is explained by the tendency for the pejorative valuation and results in the general viewers’ distrust for the film industry.                . …”
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“Tramando arames, pedras e fios”: espaço e estigma no trabalho de um artista by Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Pedro Henrique de Gois, Gabriela De Luca, Neusa Rolita Cavedon

“…In this situation we studied, it is possible to see the labor activity being established in a relational manner and, moreover, and craftsmanship being understood as stigmatizing or a pejorative term by the subject themselves and by the passersby. …”
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Measuring recovery-oriented rehabilitation language in clinical documentation to enhance recovery-oriented practice by Veronica De Monte, Angus Veitch, Frances Dark, Carla Meurk, Marianne Wyder, Maddison Wheeler, Kylie Carney, Stephen Parker, Steve Kisely, Dan Siskind

“…There was no significant change in use of person-centred or pejorative terms, possibly because of a relatively high frequency of person-centred language (22% of sentences) and low use of pejorative language (2.3% of sentences) at baseline. …”
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Happy endings by Michael Barret

“…Also "Hollywood" is often pejorative, a shorthand for whatever criticism one cares to imply without examining it. …”
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SEMANTICS OF INSULT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VERB PARADIGM by K. Novikova

“…The paper argues for the possibility of identifying pejorative meaning in statements that contain derogatory verbs when conducting forensic linguistic examination of materials in investigations of alleged insult. …”
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Nommer l’autre by Stéphane Dufoix

“…By that time its usage became pejorative and limited to the French situation where it was not the case before. …”
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Gwarowe sufiksy -ok [-ak], -oc/-ac [-acz], -ula i -ka w Słowniku gwary gorczańskiej (zagórzańskiej) Józefy Kobylińskiej by Maciej Mączyński

“…Dialectal suffixes -acz [-oc], -ak [-ok], -ula and -ka in zagórzański dialect usually form pejorative names of people. Among female names, a special example is the suffix -ula, which is either non-existent in other dialects, or has a different function (forms names of wives or cows). …”
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Expansion & Conflict by Zara Ferreira

“…Jong Soung stresses that “the keyword in the theme is ‘conflict’, and that word at one point was put forward as the lead of the catch phrase. Not as a pejorative word, “conflict” was used as a challenge to invoke a critical dialogue about the diasporas of the Modern Movement: how it has extended and taken root in various cultures and generations as well as how there has been conflict, if any, during this process, as explains Tae Woo Kim, Chair of docomomo Korea. …”
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Rain rituals and hybridity in Southern Africa by R M�ller

“…Under the concept hybridity, this internal inter-religious dialogue might be well described using non-pejorative, empirical language.…”
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Nuisibles ? by Jean Rivière, Olivier Thomas

“…Dans cette rue piétonne, le badaud (entendu ici, sans connotation péjorative et selon le Petit Robert, comme une «  personne qui s’attarde à regarder le spectacle de la rue  ») peut remarquer, sur le rebord d’une vitrine de pharmacie, un curieux dispositif… Il s’agit de plaques métalliques soudées entre elles qui forment une sorte de triangle à sommet aigu. …”
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A brief history of general-to-specific modelling by Hendry, D

“…General-to-specific modelling, Gets, has a long history of important developments, but its empirical application has faced opposition from accusations of ‘data mining’, now no longer pejorative, and other criticisms often based on misunderstandings. …”

Scientific imperialism and the proper relations between the sciences by Clarke, S, Walsh, A

“…'Misguided' is an explicitly normative term and the use of the pejorative 'imperialistic' is implicitly normative. …”

Invective Vocabulary in Media Discourse at the Beginning of the 21st Century: A Psycholinguistic Aspect by Oleksandr Mezhov, Maryna Navalna, Nataliia Kostusiak

“…By resorting to the method of free word association test, the authors have studied a conscious and/or subconscious reaction of Ukrainian females and males to pejorative by-words that stir up a feeling of insult. 100 people have been selected as respondents (50 people of each gender). …”
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La representación de estereotipos judíos en la iconografía de la Baja Edad Media by Jesús Saorín Medina

“…Thus supposing the appearance of that pejorative image of the Hebrew as a harmful entity, both for the society of the time and for Christianity. …”
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Book Review - Bentham’s Theory Of Fictions by Gary Lilienthal

“…There is a still a tendency among practising lawyers to speak in pejorative tones about the study of jurisprudence. This tendency may be an indicium of a failure to understand the law’s underlying reasoning, and instead, to prefer the law’s cultus,3 manifesting as fraud and abuse of legislative power. …”
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Deux ou trois « choses » sur les noms généraux by Mathilde Salles

“…The difficulties of such reiterations or the (often pejorative) discursive effects they produce are linked to the referent declassification they involve. …”
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Book Review - Bentham’s Theory Of Fictions by Gary Lilienthal

“…There is a still a tendency among practising lawyers to speak in pejorative tones about the study of jurisprudence. This tendency may be an indicium of a failure to understand the law’s underlying reasoning, and instead, to prefer the law’s cultus,3 manifesting as fraud and abuse of legislative power. …”
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