denigrate
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He said MSPs "should take care not to denigrate or damage the rule of law".
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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
Netflix didn’t just become HBO—it won HBO, and will now denigrate the quality of that house in the process while swallowing up another formidable competitor.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2025
But certainly, my script is not in an effort to denigrate Maggie’s experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
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It issued a four-page fact-check of the book that denigrates Wynn-Williams’ ostensibly “new” claims by asserting that they were mostly published previously, and even helpfully provides links to the original reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
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
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
There are people and communities I want to see celebrated in a world that denigrates them.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020
Trevor Phillips, former chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, told me communities should not be "denigrated" for their anger.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
Caesar denigrated situation comedies as soap operas with laughs added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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
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“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
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, which directly contradicts these values,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
Earlier this year, Kelly — for what must be the first time — tried to promote positivity toward women without directly denigrating anyone else in the process.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2025
Regiomontanus spoke in praise of the mathematical sciences, and he praised them by denigrating the Aristotelian philosophy taught in the universities.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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