"tone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It can also be translated in far less flattering terms; Adam Hochschild suggested, while Stanley understood it as an heroic epithet, his Congolese companions understood it in a mocking and pejorative tone.
- Regardless, because terrorist chic derives its iconography from groups and individuals often associated with violent conflict or terrorism, the term carries a greater pejorative tone than "radical chic."
- The term acquired a number of other meanings by the way of analogy, referring to synchronous or imitating movement or other behavior, following something or someone ("in lockstep with..."), often with a pejorative tone.
- The clumsiness of this article, along with its "pastiche" of fact and farce, are all cloaked in pejorative tones and made me realize that nothing new would be learned here, except to better understand one man's ability to use mormonism as a way to backhandedly compliment "the colonies".
- Ryder tried to make his tone sardonic and pejorative, but no one was deceived.
- At that time the term Brazilianist more frequently had somewhat of a pejorative tone.
- The name was adopted with a pejorative tone by the Spaniards when referring especially to the semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples of northern Mexico.
- It carries a pejorative tone and is relatively rarely used to describe the speaker.
- Today, of course, permissiveness is a word we recognize only in pejorative tones.
- Nevertheless, it can be used also in modern Hungarian to express a slight pejorative tone against a person.
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