Pejorative terms for people

thumb|237px|19th-century portrayal of the Huns as barbarians

thumb|upright=1.2|A revision of a Wikipedia article shows a troll Vandalism on Wikipedia|vandalizing by replacing content with an insult.|alt= In slang, trolling is when a person posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online (such as in social media, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or performs similar behaviors in real life. The methods and motivations of trolls can range from benign to sadistic. These messages can be inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic, and may have the intent of provoking others into displaying emotional responses, or manip

contemporary subculture defined by claims to authenticity and uniqueness

Derogatory term that originated in the Western bloc during the Cold War, referring to a person who, though not a spy, unwittingly promotes or defends the ideology or movements of enemy states such as those in the Eastern bloc

right|thumb|1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a carpetbagger In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, or social gain. The term broadly included both individuals who sought to promote Republican politics (including the right of African Americans to vote and hold office) and individuals who saw business and politica

pejorative term for an unskilled hacker who uses scripts instead of coding on their own

parent who pays extremely close attention to a children's experiences and problems

thumb|upright=1.6|Ole Worm's [[cabinet of curiosities, from Museum Wormianum, 1655]]

metaphor

A libertine is a person questioning and challenging most moral principles, such as responsibility or sexual restraints, and will often declare these traits as unnecessary, undesirable or evil. A libertine is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society.

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person who offered loans with extremely high interest rates, often with strict terms of collection

ageist catchphrase and Internet meme

thumb|right|200px|The British poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold adapted the German word Philister to English as the word philistine to denote [[anti-intellectualism.]]

Simp () is an internet slang term describing someone who exhibits excessive sympathy and attention toward another person, typically to someone who does not reciprocate the same feelings, in pursuit of affection or a sexual relationship. This behavior, recognized as simping, is directed towards a variety of targets, including celebrities, politicians, e-girls, and e-boys. The term had sporadic usage until gaining popularity on social media in 2019.

Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1980). After the novel, in the Soviet Union the word came to refer to people who have lost touch with their ethnic homeland, who have forgotten their kinship. This meaning was retained in Russia and many other post-Soviet states.

slang term

thumb|240px|The Pedant by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson Pedantry ( ) is an excessive concern with formalism, minor details, and rules that are not important.

political Internet meme

thumb|upright=1.4|"A Dead Horse on a Knacker's Cart", drawing by Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827). thumb|A group of dead pigs awaiting pickup by a local knackery, dumped at the edge of a farm site in [[Scotland; pig farmers in particular prefer the knackery truck not to come close to where live pigs are kept as this is a way that disease can be spread.]] thumb|Smoke discharging from incinerators at Douglasbrae Knackery, Scotland. The business deals with the disposal of animal carcasses from all over the north-east of Scotland.

Lamer is a jargon or slang name originally applied in cracker and phreaker culture to someone who did not really understand what they were doing. Today it is also loosely applied by IRC, BBS, demosceners, and online gaming users to anyone perceived to be contemptible. In general, the term has come to describe someone who is willfully ignorant of how things work. It is derived from the word "lame".

unmarried adults financially and psychologically dependent on a provider for daily living

phrase to refer to someone who is famous for no particular reason

thumb|250px|Josef Budko's woodcut depiction of the shiksa in Hayim Nahman Bialik's Behind the Fence

immigrant child granting legal residency to kin through its birthright citizenship

thumb|Models (painting)|Models (Les Poseuses) by Georges Seurat A poseur is someone who poses for effect, or behaves affectedly, who affects a particular attitude, character or manner to impress others, or who pretends to belong to a particular group. A poseur may be a person who pretends to be what they are not or an insincere person; they may have a flair for drama or behave as if they are onstage in daily life.

psychology

Before the popularization of the Internet in the 1990s, Internet slang defined a luser (sometimes expanded to local user; also luzer or luzzer) as a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user. The word is a blend of "loser" and "user". Among hackers, the word luser takes on a broad meaning, referring to any normal user (in other words, not a "guru"), with the implication the person is also a loser. The term is partially interchangeable with the hacker term lamer.

A loner is a person described as not seeking out, actively avoiding, or failing to maintain interpersonal relationships.

A prude is a person with a very sensitive attitude and narrowness towards custom and morality. The word prude comes from the Old French word also meaning loyal, respectable or modest woman, which was the source of prude in the 18th century. According to Pierer's Universal Lexikon in 1861, prudery is "modest in an exaggerated and affected way; seeming delicate, squeamish". In a broader sense, prudery refers to an attitude of mind that aims to largely exclude sexual expressions of any kind in public and sometimes also in the private sphere. This applies above all to the portrayal or even suggest

subculture

neologism for someone who benefits from nepotism

Pejorative term used by racists

fictional race from Gulliver's Travels

The word asshole (in North American English) or arsehole (in all other major varieties of the English language) is a vulgarism used to describe the anus, and often used pejoratively (as a type of synecdoche) to refer to people.

Anērān (Middle Persian, ) or Anīrân (Modern Persian, ) is an ethno-linguistic term that signifies "non-Iranian" or "non-Iran" (non-Aryan). Thus, in a general sense, 'Aniran' signifies lands where Iranian languages are not spoken. In a pejorative sense, it denotes "a political and religious enemy of Iran and Zoroastrianism."

thumb|upright=1.5|350px|right|Codex Azcatitlan, [[Hernán Cortés and Malinche (far right), early 16th-century indigenous pictorial manuscript of the conquest of Mexico]]

A slacker is someone who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic.

thumb|Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson was called an "egghead" by [[Richard Nixon during the 1952 U.S. presidential race.]] In U.S. English slang, egghead is an epithet used to refer to intellectuals or people considered out-of-touch with ordinary people and lacking in realism, common sense, sexual interests, etc. on account of their intellectual interests. A similar, though not necessarily pejorative, British term is boffin. The term egghead reached its peak currency during the 1950s, when vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon used it against Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai Steven

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Akutō (悪党) is a Japanese term that refers to: Generally, a term meaning evil person or villain. In this context, "evil" (悪) refers to actions that deviate from humanity or concepts related to harmful things. Synonyms include akunin (evil person), akkan (scoundrel), narazumono (rogue), and gorotsuki (ruffian). In medieval Japan, a term for individuals or groups who rebelled against the ruling class or established order and caused disturbances. This article focuses on this meaning. __TOC__

thumb|alt=a long-haired kitten|The word pussy historically refers to cats. Pussy () is an English noun, adjective, and—in rare instances—verb. It has several meanings, as slang, as euphemism, and as vulgarity. Most commonly, it is used as a noun with the meaning "cat", or "coward" or "weakling". In slang, it can mean "vulva", "vagina", or by synecdoche, "sexual intercourse with a woman". Because of its multiple senses including both innocent and vulgar connotations, pussy is often the subject of double entendre. The etymology of the word is not clear. Several different senses of the word have

protagonist of a James Thurber short story

thumb|"The King of Schnorrers" Manasseh da Costa (left) and his sidekick Yankele Schnorrer (שנאָרער; also spelled shnorrer) is a Yiddish pejorative term for a beggar who, unlike ordinary beggars, presents himself as respectable and feels entitled for the alms received.

To be ridiculous is to be something highly incongruous or inferior, sometimes deliberately so to make people laugh or get their attention, and sometimes unintendedly so as to be considered laughable and earn or provoke ridicule and derision. It comes from the 1540s Latin "ridiculosus" meaning "laughable", from "ridiculus" meaning "that which excites laughter", and from "ridere" meaning "to laugh". "Ridiculous" is an adjective describing "the ridiculous".

person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal

Creature in Chinese mythology

Huan-a () is a Hokkien-language term used by Hokkien speakers in multiple countries, namely Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. The word itself when dissected means , + , but to the ethnic Chinese that settled overseas in Taiwan and Maritime Southeast Asia, it soon came to refer to native Southeast Asians and Taiwanese aborigines.

Obrazovanshchina (, 'educationdom', 'educaties', 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.