denigrate

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

From BBC ● May 1, 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

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

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

It also means being aware of language that may seem neutral but subtly devalues or denigrates people.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2021

But he denigrates the state’s landmark California Environmental Quality Act by citing how it interferes with the addition of bike lanes on public roads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

Caesar denigrated situation comedies as soap operas with laughs added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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

The speculation, she says, is "denigrating to their memories".

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 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

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