Imagining Chinatown: Broken Blossoms (1919) in Britain by Agata Frymus

“…Was Limehouse represented in universally pejorative terms, and, if so, what kind of social forces made such narratives reverberate?…”
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Terminologia dotycząca pokory i pychy w pismach greckich Ojców Kościoła IV wieku by Mariusz Szram

“…However, the first two were used in the ancient Greek literature, but usually in a pejora­tive sense and meant „smallness”, „weakness”, „misery”. …”
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Turkish Adaptation of Driver’s Angry Thoughts Questionnaire by Ayşegül DURAK BATIGÜN, Yeşim Yasak

“…As a result of factor analysis "judgmental thinking," "revenge thinking" "positive coping thinking", "aggressive thinking" and "pejorative labeling thinking" were obtained, including a five-factor structure. …”
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Etude des marqueurs affectifs et axiologiques dans des sessions de coaching individuel streamees : le cas de League of Legends by Kraeber Sophie

“…À travers une étude quantitative de ces marqueurs en fonction du degré de leur charge méliorative ou péjorative déterminée à partir d’un test de perception, nous montrons que les locuteurs de notre corpus ont chacun leur style d’évaluation. …”
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Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy: Overview of an Emerging Medical Problem from Pathophysiology to Outcomes by Gabriele Savioli, Iride Francesca Ceresa, Luca Caneva, Sebastiano Gerosa, Giovanni Ricevuti

“…It develops independently of iatrogenic, hypothermic, and dilutive causes (such as iatrogenic cause in case of fluid administration), which instead have a pejorative aspect on coagulopathy. Notwithstanding the continuous research conducted over the past decade on Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy (TIC), it remains a life-threatening condition with a significant impact on trauma mortality. …”
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Features of Linguistic and Cultural Type “Bureaucrat”: Compatibility of Adjective <i>bureaucratic</i> by S. A. Anokhina, N. V. Pozdnyakova

“…It is noted that the connotative component in the meaning of the adjective determines an almost exclusively negative interpretation of the image: the pejorative component of the value determines the compatibility of the studied adjective with the designations of negative qualities. …”
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La notion d'élémentarité et ses enjeux actuels by Alain Trouvé

“…D'une part, identifié à tout ce qui peut être reçu comme facile d'accès (à cause de l'évidence et de la simplicité qu'il désigne), l'élémentaire, souvent enfermé dans une acception triviale et péjorative, est rattaché de préférence à l'univers de l'école dite "primaire". …”
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Enlightenment and Domination: Foucault on Critique of Enlightenment’s Emancipation Discourse by Morteza Nouri

“…In his work, the concept of ‘power’ is constantly fluctuating between two meanings: neutral, descriptive on the one hand, and pejorative, normative on the other hand. Foucault’s fear of being bounded to a specific position subjected unconsciously to a ubiquitous power, related to first meaning, prevents him from making an invidious distinction between emancipatory and authoritative aspects of social and political disciplinary institutions. …”
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The concept of Goffman stigma applied to old age by Eunice Maria Godinho Morando, Juliana Campos Schmitt, Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira, Cláudia Helena Cerqueira Mármora

“…Reflecting on the issue of the elderly is necessary to deconstruct prejudices, alter the pejorative and partial view that marginalizes them and favor their recognition as an individual capable of learning and socio-political participation.…”
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The Crescent on the Stage: Islam and Muslims in the Plays of two Elizabethan Dramatists by Mubashar Hassan Arif

“…They also employed many pejorative appellations for these characters. For example, ethnic terms like ‘Turks’ and ‘Moors’ were used for Muslim characters. …”
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Structure and semantics of derived verbs of behaviour in the Russian language by Fatkhutdinova Venera Gabdulkhakovna

“…Lexical derivation is accompanied by active metaphorization, as a result of which the verbal lexeme acquires expressive-evaluative connotation (often pejorative) and functional and stylistic marking (‘colloquial’ or ‘bookish’). …”
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Ethno-Linguo-Cultural Specificity of Russian Official Concept “Court” in Europeanization Era by Lyudmila Popova

“…The analysis of the ordinary segment of the concept "court" in Russian paremiology revealed the above mentioned ethno-cultural concepts with a prevailing pejorative estimate. The coincidence of the justice pattern in the official and ordinary legal consciousness is noted.…”
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Biurokratyczne załatwianie spraw by Krzysztof Świderski

“…Bureaucracy is the negative behavior of officials: learned helplessness, routine, prejudices against applicants, assurance, conformism, and excessive formalism. The legislator’s pejorative assessment does not refer to bureaucracy itself, but to red tape as a dysfunction of bureaucracy. …”
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"We're tolerant and they're prejudiced": Same-sex marriage supporters' and opponents' perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims. by Michael J Platow, Clinton G Knight, Dirk Van Rooy, Martha Augoustinos, Daniel Bar-Tal, Russell Spears

“…Without this consensus, each side of the political debate may simply hurl the pejorative label of "prejudice" against the other, with likely little opportunity for social influence and social change.…”
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Blood eosinophilia: A poor prognostic factor for primary cutaneous T cell lymphomas? A cohort of 72 cases by Kelati Awatef, Meziane Mariame, Mernissi Fatima Zahra

“…Conclusions: BE was significantly related to MF, to advanced stages of the disease, to pejorative clinical signs and to elevated rate of LDH and B2M which are poor prognostic factors of MF with four cases of death, which prove that BE is also a poor Prognostic factor of MF.…”
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Intersecting Positionalities and the Unexpected Uses of Digital Crime and Safety Tracking in Brooklyn by Alice Riddell

“…This article explores the ways that Citizen exemplifies these tensions: The app makes users feel safer but also more anxious; Citizen is a place for community information sharing to both productive and pejorative effects, it is used to both surveil one’s neighbourhood, instilling fear and mistrust, and to sousveil law enforcement and circumnavigate the NYPD at protests, producing accountability and a sense of safety. …”
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The gendered dimensions of the anti-mask and anti-lockdown movement on social media by Ahmed Al-Rawi, Maliha Siddiqi, Clare Wenham, Julia Smith

“…Using the MDM approach, we analysed posts taken from Facebook and Instagram from active anti-mask and anti-lockdown users, and we identified three main discourses around the gendered discussion of the anti-mask movement including hypermasculine, sexist and pejorative portrayals of “Karen”, and appropriating freedom and feminism discourses. …”
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From Malignant Progression to Therapeutic Targeting: Current Insights of Mesothelin in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma by Christopher Montemagno, Shamir Cassim, Jacques Pouyssegur, Alexis Broisat, Gilles Pagès

“…The lack of available specific diagnostics tests and the limited treatment opportunities contribute to this pejorative issue. Over the last 10 years, a growing interest pointing towards mesothelin (MSLN) as a promising PDAC-associated antigen has emerged. …”
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MODERN СITY IMAGE IN NEWER RUSSIAN POETRY

“…Contextual analysis allows to distinguish the following linguistic means of creating a modern city image: use of lexical items and rhetorical devices typical of the Soviet discourse, the Soviet ideologemes along with the contemporary clichéd expressions, modern urban sociolects, speech mimicry (which allows the author to distance himself from the pejorative statements). "Borrowed" speech forms the image of a modern town dweller who has archaic and primitive political and cultural attitudes. …”
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“A talented and decorative group” : a re-examination of London’s women artists, c. 1900-1914 by Yu, Mengting

“…Alicia Foster’s article “Gwen John’s Self-Portrait: Art, Identity and Women Students at the Slade School,” published in 2000, used the expression “a talented and decorative group” to describe common attitudes towards women artists in late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. The pejorative attribution implied strongly a status less significant to that of their male counterparts and it is this widely held view which I challenge in this dissertation. …”
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