denigrate

But Ms. Glendon does not denigrate rights; far from it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 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

None of this is to denigrate Townsend, whose passion for the job is questioned only by those who don't know him.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

And they don’t denigrate that person—they honor her.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

“I think anything that denigrates other people, I have to respectfully decline,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

There are people and communities I want to see celebrated in a world that denigrates them.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

The very traditional rap song takes the listener through a list of people who have wronged and denigrated the rapper's name.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

“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

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

“It is likely that a very unhappy human came up with the idea of denigrating the holiday experience, even if AI was used to create part of the ad.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

Four years later, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, all nuance was gone; the version of Jefferson on display became a denigrating demonstration of hypocrisy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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