Word Finder - disparaging

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To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.

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To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

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To ridicule, mock, discredit.

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Disparagement

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Insulting, ridiculing.

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The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.

I will answer your questions and give you the information you need to get through this, but if you dare say one more disparaging word about my best friend, this will not end well for you.

If your teen makes disparaging comments about his or her own appearance, sit down and have a conversation about how he or she is feeling.

Despite a hostile reception and disparaging remarks from sections of the Scottish press, the nationalist campaign could be right on target.

Some children are trained earlier, and some, after enduring the disparaging looks of others, are fully potty trained at a later age.

It is in any case unfair to decide questions by disparaging terms, and to argue as if the whole choice were between materialistic or idealistic monism, leaving realism out of court.

Would you want to join a fleet where this disparaging attitude seems common?

When considering how to write a resignation letter, keep in mind that you need to stick to the facts and avoid making any types of disparaging remarks about the position or the company you are leaving.

Tragically, her sister killed herself over her guilt from the disparaging remarks she made about Deleese while the show was filming family statements.

The word "herd" is also applied in a disparaging sense to a company of people, a mob or rabble, as "the vulgar herd."

The LiveJournal Secrets community was becoming a community where members were insulting and harassing each other with insulting and disparaging comments.

He visited Canada during Papineau's revolt and the United States in 1837, and gave a disparaging account of American institutions in a Diary published on his return to England.

History comes nearer to philosophy; and Aristotle's Constitutions were known to his enemy Timaeus, who attacked him for disparaging the descent of the Locrians of Italy, according to Polybius (xii.), who defended Aristotle.

Kelly was recently arrested for slapping gossip columnist Zoe Griffin at a London nightclub for making disparaging remarks in her column regarding her boyfriend, Luke Worrall.

Many of the most remarkable among the younger men of that period resorted to Highgate as to the shrine of an oracle, and although one or two disparaging judgments, such as that of Carlyle, have been recorded, there can be no doubt that since Samuel Johnson there had been no such power in England.