Usually means: Used to express disapproval or criticism.
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  1. pejoratively: Merriam-Webster
  2. pejoratively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pejoratively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pejoratively: Vocabulary.com
  5. pejoratively: Wordnik
  6. pejoratively: Wiktionary
  7. pejoratively: Dictionary.com
  8. Pejoratively: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. pejoratively: Rhymezone
  10. pejoratively: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pejoratively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. pejoratively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pejoratively: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pejoratively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pejoratively)

▸ adverb:  In a pejorative manner. Insultingly, disparagingly; so as to belittle another or harm their reputation.

Similar:
depreciatingly, disparagingly, demeaningly, derogatorily, insultingly, defamingly, deprecatingly, degradingly, derisively, deridingly, more...

Opposite:
complimentary, positive, favorable

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Similar:
depreciatingly, disparagingly, demeaningly, derogatorily, insultingly, defamingly, deprecatingly, degradingly, derisively, deridingly, more...

Opposite:
complimentary, positive, favorable



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