pejorize

present singular third person pejorizes · participle present pejorizing · participle past pejorized · past pejorized

1. raretransitiveTo render pejorative.

   It is enough that we are all as yet mere children in knowledge without being so foolish also as to aggravate and pejorize the situation with our hoydenish conduct.

   1926, Paul Carus, The Open Court, volume 40, page 635

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   On the other hand, the fact that OE cniht means not only 'boy, youth', but also 'servant' reflects a different, pejorizing tendency which likewise has parallels elsewhere.

   1991, Hans Henrich Hock, Principles of Historical Linguistics, page 302

   At the same time, the desire to see or to represent the community as one, as a universitas, is both idealized and pejorized by thinking of it as “one voice,” since vocal singular interests supposedly oppose the communal interests of the speaking assembly.

   2007, Matthew Giancarlo, Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England, page 77