The term is most often used with the pejorative meaning of a smear campaign.

The word peasant, since the 14th century (or even before), has a pejorative meaning and is not a neutral term.

Alas for perfectly lovely words that acquire pejorative meanings over the years!

Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning.

Well, a "rant" is certainly what it was, in all the pejorative meanings of that term.

This is sometimes still used today in former Ottoman territories and carries a strong pejorative meaning.

Since when has the word politics, especially in an election year, taken on a pejorative meaning?

The word communal has a pejorative meaning in India, indicating religious or ethnic bias.

"There's a pejorative meaning to the term feminist evolutionist," she told the audience.

Some, which have lost their pejorative meaning, are now used to name restaurants, theater groups, communal houses, etc.