Offensive and Pejorative

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Offensive adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Pejorative and offensive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pejorative" instead an adjective "Offensive".

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

Pejorative adjective - Intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value.

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Offensive and pejorative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Offensive" instead an adjective "Pejorative".

Nearby Word: pejoratively

The generic term for exported Asian laborers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was "coolie." This word was often used as a pejorative, and many people of Asian heritage find it offensive, so it should only be used in its historical context.

Source: Chinese Laborer
By the early XX century the word "Zhid/Żyd" that means "Jew" in most Slavic languages (just like the English word, it is derived from the Hebrew word "Yehudi") has become so offensive in Russian that it is now used exclusively as a pejorative, on the same level of offensiveness as "Kike".

Source: Useful Notes / Judaism
Separated by a Common Language: The slightly, er- intellectually subnormal giant gingerbread man raises eyebrows in Scotland, where the word "mongo" is an extremely offensive pejorative term for someone who is mentally handicapped.

Source: Western Animation / Shrek 2

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