Siobhan Finneran as Sarah OâBrien, and Clare Cartwright in Happy Valley. Siobhan Finneran portrayed Sarah OâBrien, ladyâs maid to Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern), in seasons one through three. OâBrien embraced her role as a career woman, but wasnât always keen to serve her employers. Finneran signed up for three series, and when she was done, she was done.
adjective. The definition of pejorative is having a negative or belittling effect. An example of pejorative is a cruel statement about a student's schoolwork that causes him to produce even lower quality schoolwork.
Pejorative suffix. A pejorative suffix is a suffix that attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the diminutive form. The pejorative suffix may add the sense of a despicable example of the preceding, as in Spanish -ejo (see below). It can also convey the sense of a despicable human having the preceding characteristic; for instance, as in English -el (see below) or the development of the word cuckold from Old French cocu cuckoo + -ald, taken into Anglo-Saxon as cokewald and thus to the modern English word.