Adjective

Children born with an extra chromosome 21 are healthy, conspicuously happy and destined to live for many years. But they are not considered, in that pejorative word, 'normal'. — Matt Ridley , Genome ,

The word barbarian was used by the Greeks, to designate an alien, and therefore, by definition, someone inferior in culture to a Hellene. The Romans applied this in the pejorative sense to the people who came to live along the Rhine-Danube frontier. — Norman F. Cantor , The Civilization of the Middle Ages ,

On occasion they expressed a preference for the terms Latino or Hispanic if that would assist them in escaping from the term Puerto Rican, which became, at times, almost pejorative . — John Hope Franklin , "The Land of Room Enough," , in Race and History ,

a word with pejorative connotations

the reviewer used the pejorative word “versifier” to refer to the writer, whose poems had struck a responsive chord with the general public