alt Hacker News> It’s not a bad word.
When used in the negative sense it is, per https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rhetoric
"disapproving -> clever language that sounds good but is not sincere or has no real meaning"
Are you implying you mean something other than this sense of the word?
"Implying" seems kind of weak, the person you're responding to shared the definition they are using.