Pejorative terms

Explaination of events to untrue causes

thumb|Homophobic Westboro Baptist Church protesters in [[Washington, D.C., 2019]]

thumb|Saint Nicholas with [[Arius at the Council of Nicaea, at which he is said to have hit him; Arius was known for preaching that Jesus was created by God and has a lower status, a heresy in Trinitarian Christianity]]Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. A heretic is a proponent of heresy.

false or misleading information presented as news

thumb|300px|Major denominations and religions of the world A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, typically emerging as an offshoot of a larger organization. Originally, the term referred specifically to religious groups that had separated from a main body, but it can now apply to any group that diverges from a larger organization to follow a distinct set of beliefs and practices. Sects often form when there is a perception of heresy either within the subgroup or from the larger group.

thumb|280px|A portion of Hippolyte Delaroche's 1836 oil painting ''[[Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers]] thumb|240px|Charles IX of Sweden|Duke Karl Insulting the Corpse of [[Klaus Fleming'', Albert Edelfelt, 1878. Fleming's wife Ebba Stenbock on the right.]]

Hīnayāna (Sanskrit: , ), literally meaning "Small Vehicle" or "Lesser Vehicle", is an umbrella term for the early Buddhist schools, at one time used by the Mahāyāna school to refer to the pre-Mahāyāna Buddhist paths to liberation. Specifically, it encompasses the Śrāvakayāna ("Listeners Vehicle") and Pratyekabuddhayāna ("Solitary-Realizers Vehicle") paths. Mahāyāna Buddhists consider the Hīnayāna as the first, preliminary, and individual-focused (hīna) pathway or "vehicle" (yāna) towards liberation offered by the Buddha's teachings, in contrast to the greater (mahā) vehicle (yāna): the second

thumb|300x300px|Jean-Léon Gérôme, [[The Snake Charmer, . Clark Art Institute.]] In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle East, was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and Western literature was influenced by a similar interest in Oriental themes.

Cults are social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal is another characteristic often ascribed to cults. The term has different, divergent and often pejorative, definitions both in popular culture and academia and has been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.

A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something. It is also used to express criticism, hostility, or disregard. Sometimes, a term is regarded as pejorative in some social or ethnic groups but not in others or may be originally pejorative but later adopt a non-pejorative sense (or vice versa) in some or all contexts.

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thumb|A pastiche combining elements of paintings by Pollaiuolo and [[Botticelli (Portrait of a Woman and '''' respectively), using Photoshop]]

category of sports that involve bloodshed

Fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood

non-bank financial intermediaries providiving services similar to banks outside banking

business that cashes in on inventions of others by buying up patents before expiration date

Micromanagement is a management style characterized by behaviors such as an excessive focus on observing and controlling subordinates and an obsession with details.

Supremacism is the belief that a certain group of people is superior to, and should have authority over, all others. The presumed superior group can be defined by various characteristics, including age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, language, social class, ideology, nationality, culture, generation, or any other human attribute.

society based on relations between huge numbers of people, whose prototypical denizen is the "mass man"

A half-truth is a deceptive statement that includes some element of truth. The statement might be partly true, the statement may be totally true, but only part of the whole truth, or it may use some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, or double meaning, especially if the intent is to deceive, evade, blame or misrepresent the truth.

upright=1.35|thumb|''The Drunkard's Progress'': by [[Nathaniel Currier 1846, warns that moderate drinking leads, step-by-step, to total disaster.]] Moralism is a philosophy that arose in the 19th century that concerns itself with imbuing society with a certain set of morals, usually traditional behaviour, but also "justice, freedom, and equality". It has strongly affected North American and British culture, concerning private issues such as the family unit and sexuality, as well as issues that carry over into the public square, such as the temperance movement.

fund that invests in distressed assets

thumb|McDonald's staff in Quezon City, Philippines "McJob" is a slang term for a low-paying, low-prestige dead-end job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of advancement. The term "McJob" comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status jobregardless of employerwhere little training is required, staff turnover is high, and workers' activities are tightly regulated by managers.

uncritical devotion to a religion

phrase used to describe bad science, generally attributed to Wolfgang Pauli

word that appears meaningful but is vague

word with a pejorative meaning that should insult a person

An adulterant is a substance discreetly added to another that may compromise the safety or effectiveness. Consumable products, such as food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and fuels, are frequently adulterated to reduce the cost or difficulty of production without the knowledge of the buyer, allowing the product to be sold at the same price as a chemically pure equivalent. The adulteration of street drugs is known as lacing.

tactics through media showing poverty to elicit sympathy

Self-righteousness (also called sanctimony, sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is an attitude and belief of moral superiority derived from a person deeming their own beliefs, actions, or affiliations to be of greater virtue than those of the average person. Self-righteous individuals are intolerant of the opinions and behaviors of others that they deem to be less moral and virtuous. A self-righteous person will often exhort or rebuke certain behaviors and actions from others.

Christian theology

form of boast or insult commonly heard in competitive situations

when a seller increases prices of goods, services, or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair

Sophistication refers to the qualities of refinement, good taste, and wisdom. By contrast, its original use was as a pejorative, derived from sophist, and included the idea of admixture or adulteration. Today, as researched by Faye Hammill, it is common as a measure of refinement—displaying good taste, wisdom and subtlety rather than crudeness, stupidity and vulgarity. In the perception of social class, sophistication can be linked with concepts such as status, privilege and superiority.

type of short joke

A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations.

frequent citation of previous publications that lack evidence misleads individuals, groups, and the public into thinking or believing there is evidence

Pseudophilosophy is a philosophical idea or system which does not meet an expected set of philosophical standards. There is no universally accepted set of standards, but there are similarities and some common ground.

party that enforces copyrights for purposes of making money through litigation

films believed to have been made solely to get nominated for Academy Awards

Pseudoreligion or pseudotheology is a pejorative term which is a combination of the Greek prefix "pseudo", meaning false, and "religion." The term is sometimes avoided in religious scholarship as it is seen as polemic, but it is used colloquially in multiple ways, and is generally used for a belief system, philosophy, or movement which is functionally similar to a religious movement, often having a founder, principal text, liturgy, or faith-based beliefs. It is also used for movements or ideologies which are not ostensibly religious but have qualities identified as "religious" qualities such a

American phrase

portmanteau of the words California and fornication

providing a product or a service to only the high-value or low-cost customers of that product or service, while disregarding clients that are less profitable for the company; choosing only attractive parts

Westsplaining (a blend word of west and the informal form -splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term that represents criticism of Western world sociopolitical views of other parts of the world. It has been used primarily in relation to Western discussions of Central and Eastern Europe and its historical and current relations with the Soviet Union and Russia.

harsh, gratuitous, prejudicial attack on a person, verbally or physically, or on a topic

university degrees regarded as worthless

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