"description" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Because the authors cannot finally screen out all moral and political judgment, many of their own sentiments are embedded in their use of pejorative descriptions.
- Most of the talk is about black women's age-old attempts to combat "nappiness," a once pejorative description that is celebrated here with infectious gusto.
- The term "Gothic architecture" originated as a pejorative description.
- Her pejorative description of the choice shows her bias.
- The term "meatpuppet" (or "meat puppet") is used as a pejorative description of various online behaviors.
- More generally it is a pejorative description of the use of words which appear to have been used without regard to their meaning.
- Most commentators have placed the Church in the category of "joke religions", which is usually seen as a pejorative description.
- The pejorative description "lunatic" was replaced by "a person of unsound mind" in 1930 and a "mentally disordered person" in 1959.
- But we doubt that there is any such standard, and we are quite sure that the pejorative description "outrageous" does not supply one.
- Currently, within Europe, the most common use of the term is as a pejorative description of the state of immigration into the European Union.
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