denigrate
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"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
And they don’t denigrate that person—they honor her.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
“He denigrates his status. If he wants to help Xóchitl Gálvez, his best contribution would be prudence, respect and, above all, silence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Elsewhere, Ingram denigrates freedom of speech and the press:
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2021
“I think anything that denigrates other people, I have to respectfully decline,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
The solicitor added: "The families have now been vindicated but only after years of being denigrated and dismissed by the health board."
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
Caesar denigrated situation comedies as soap operas with laughs added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
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
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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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
"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
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
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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