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.
1 A pejorative sense is exactly what brought the word back into use in the mid-nineteenth century. 2  It could be a fairly neutral term, but as the editorial proceeds it becomes quite pejorative with many negative overtones.