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• Thus'villain'has undergone pejoration.
• Your whine is about the former's pejoration and is beside the point of whomever uses the word.
• Blank considers it problematic, though, to include amelioration and pejoration of meaning as well as strengthening and weakening of meaning.
• :: " He's an absolute shower " was a fairly common term of pejoration among upperish-class Brits at one time.
• :: : " pejoration " seems to me to require acquisition of negative connotation ( or narrowing to a negatively-loaded sense ), rather than mere loss of a positive connotation .  talk ) 05 : 13, 2 August 2009 ( UTC)
• A euphemism may often devolve into a taboo word itself, through the linguistic process known as " pejoration " or " semantic change " described by W . V . O . Quine, and more recently dubbed the " euphemism treadmill " by Harvard professor Steven Pinker.
• Goddard proposes as an alternative the emergence of the term from the speech of Native Americans themselves and that the origin and use of the term in the late 18th and early 19th century was benign : " When it first appeared as an English expression in the early 1800s, it came in the most respectful context and at the highest level . [ . . . ] These are white people and Indians talking together, with the white people trying to ingratiate themselves . " The word later underwent a process of " pejoration ", by which it gained a negative connotation.