denigrate

"You should not denigrate people who disagree with you; you should reason with them."

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

Altman’s November 2019 email also told the board that Dario agreed “not to denigrate projects he doesn’t believe in that others want to bet on.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

After a week of hearing various US officials denigrate Europe, its leaders and its regulations at Davos, ECB chief Christine Lagarde said Friday that the harsh words could be just what the continent needed.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Films are poignant and important, no matter how much the institutions designed to award them have come to denigrate them.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

Climbers who snidely denigrate this as the Yak Route, I decided, had obviously never been through the Khumbu Icefall.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

A spokesperson for the ASA said: "We've received a complaint about a Nationwide ad. The complainant argues that the ad is misleading around other banks closing branches, and discredits and denigrates its competitors."

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2024

“It denigrates the millions of victims of the Shoah in a despicable manner,” the council’s president, Josef Schuster, said, using the Hebrew name for the Holocaust.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

“We do not believe that this depiction harms or denigrates the Jewish community,” the committee said Tuesday in a statement to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

Elsewhere, Ingram denigrates freedom of speech and the press:

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2021

The ADL tweeted that Crawford “should be ashamed of her rhetoric that undermines science and denigrates the suffering of millions murdered during the Holocaust.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

“Classical architecture is often denigrated by cultural elites,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Last year, Badenoch faced criticism from Nigeria's vice-president, who said she had "denigrated" the West African country.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

“We need to recognize that there were individuals here that were denigrated and that an apology is due to them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

By the mid-20th-century, however, leading behavioral theorists denigrated the idea of studying animal emotions since, even if they existed, they were scientifically unmeasurable and unverifiable.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

I know my parents had their reasons to raise us without religion, but it still upsets me to hear my grandmother's peaceful beliefs denigrated.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“Poverty and deprivation are no reflection on character, and there is no justification for denigrating the character of Haitians who suffer from and bear no responsibility for their country’s ills,” Justice Alito writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The “Mandalorian” actor was fired by Disney in 2021 for “her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities” that the company called “abhorrent and unacceptable.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

In the lead up to the Super Bowl, boosters of traditional sportsbooks have been denigrating prediction markets.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

"We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image", publisher Kids Can Press said.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

“You’ll learn, young brotha. You’ll learn. The Europeans succeeded in denigrating and enslaving peoples of African descent, but there’s royal blood flowing through your veins, you hear me?”

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone