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9 April 2014

pejorative

[pi-jawr-uh-tiv, -jor-, pej-uh-rey-, pee-juh-]

adjective

1. having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
noun
2. a pejorative form or word, as poetaster.

Example:

The pejorative overtones of the lecture made the students feel terrible.

Origin:
1880–85; < Latin pējōrāt ( us ) (see pejoration) + -ive

Related forms
pe·jo·ra·tive·ly, adverb
non·pe·jo·ra·tive, adjective
non·pe·jo·ra·tive·ly, adverb
un·pe·jo·ra·tive, adjective
un·pe·jo·ra·tive·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. deprecatory.

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Today’s aphorism

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On this day

9 April 1413 – Henry V crowned King of England.

9 April 1682 – Robert Cavelier de la Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River. He names it Louisiana and claims it in the name of France.

9 April 1865 – Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.

9 April 1867 – United States Senate ratifies by one vote, a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.

9 April 1937 – the first Japanese-made aircraft to fly to Europe lands at Croydon Airport, London. It’s name is the Kamikaze.

9 April 1945 – execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp two weeks before the camp was liberated by US soldiers. Born 4 February 1904.