It is also a pejorative way to talk about someone fat, so it could refer to the fact that he gained some weight.
The term "legal fiction" is not usually used in a pejorative way, and has been likened to scaffolding around a building under construction.
This is a pejorative way of describing the desire to allow people to keep their own money.
The term is generally used in a pejorative way (and in a partisan fashion within American political circles).
Red fascism is commonly used in a pejorative way to describe Stalinism.
They were intimately involved but not in a pejorative way.
Also, no one but you is mentioned in a pejorative way.
So, as far as they are crusty, this is not meant to be in any way pejorative.
"I don't mean it in a pejorative way," he said.
"Most people think that willpower is just a pejorative way of describing your failures," he said.