Pejorative Term

Famous quotes containing the words pejorative and/or term:

“And that is where
The pejorative sense of fear moves axles.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)