Today’s Words That Work: Pejorative

By Early To Rise | Thu, May 12, 2011 |

  

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A pejorative (pih-JAWR-uh-tiv) – from the Latin for “to make worse” – is a word that has a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling connotation.

Example (as used by Bob Bly today): “These dilettantes (and I am using the word in its literal meaning, not as a pejorative) post their stuff on the Web and give it away for free. Their reward is knowing that people are reading or looking at their work.”

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