Easterners retort with the contemptuous term of "Textilstrand" to describe beaches where bathing suits - or "textiles" - are used.

Over time this came to be used as a slightly contemptuous term for a minister or for a schoolmaster.

Then comes the definition: "A contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a Pentecostal sect."

In the bonfires, Quebec's farm families were simply getting rid of rubbish or, to use their far more contemptuous term, "cochonnerie."

He voted for the death of Louis XVI, but not in the contemptuous terms sometimes ascribed to him.

It's a contemptuous term they apply to several of their 'friends.'

By the 1820's, it evolved in the world of politics as ragtag and bobtail, an aristocrat's contemptuous term for "rabble."

Perhaps in view of such uses as those above, one early-20th-century dictionary of American usage called squaw "a contemptuous term" (Crowell 1928).

And lie was "in trade," the contemptuous term for anyone who wasn't a gentleman of leisure, living off a business income but doing nothing to earn it.

Procopius mentions her in contemptuous terms: "Her mother was one of the prostitutes attached to the theatre."