snarl word

plural snarl words

1. A derogatory term, a term used to insult or demean its referent.

   The word 'lobby' is in effect a snarl word in the MWC.

   2016, Dawn Archer, What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction, Routledge, →ISBN

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   If you like to eat spinach the word spinach is a purr word to you; it may make your mouth water. If the taste of spinach nauseates you, then the word spinach would be a snarl word.

   1969, Jay Cline, Voices in literature, language, and composition, page 204

   His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression, wielding the snarl word “smut” and the shibboleth “decency,” of liberal political and social ideas regarding divorce, sex education, family planning, and abortion include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.

   2011, Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940

   The term cult is generally used as a hateful snarl word that is intended to intentionally devalue people and the new faith groups that they have chosen to follow. It tends to associate thousands of benign religious groups with the handful of destructive religious groups that have caused loss of life.

   2012, Joachim Onyeakor, Did We Create God?: God Scam Exposed!, →ISBN, page 72