nonpejoratively

comparative more nonpejoratively · superlative most nonpejoratively

1. In a nonpejorative manner.

   Now whether this characterization does indeed warrant his conclusion depends upon whether the term “manipulation” is used pejoratively or nonpejoratively.

   2011, Ward E. Jones, Samantha Vice, Ethics at the Cinema, →ISBN, page 45

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   Intensive regulation under the rubric of the public utility category was an attempt to juxtapose the coercive (nonpejoratively used) power of government with the coercive (nonpejoratively used) power of certain businesses.

   2002, Edythe Stern Miller, Warren J. Samuels, The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utilities Regulation, page 484

   If one may speak nonpejoratively of "trends" in Platonic scholarship, I believe it is fair to say that, especially in the English-speaking world, there is a multifaceted trend to view Plato's dialogues "nondogmatically."

   2010, Gary Alan Scott, Does Socrates Have a Method?, →ISBN