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What does pejoratively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a pejorative manner. Insultingly, disparagingly. Used in a manner to belittle or harm the reputation of another.
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The terms tourism and tourist are sometimes used pejoratively, to imply a shallow interest in the cultures or locations visited.
The term NEET is used, sometimes pejoratively, to describe people who have fallen through the socioeconomic net.
An example of a largely nomadic ethnic group in Europe is the Roma, pejoratively known as Gypsies.
Rugby union has often been considered, somewhat pejoratively, a 'posh' game.
In Britain and Ireland it remains a word one would only use pejoratively.
The name is also used pejoratively for someone who, out of shame or opportunism, makes himself the mouthpiece of a person of authority and betrays his origins.

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