disparage
Example Sentences
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Morris also suggested that a hypothetical MLB commissioner who made such disparaging remarks about any baseball legend “most likely wouldn’t, or shouldn’t, keep his or her job for very long.”
From Los Angeles Times
Campbell’s CPB -0.08%decrease; red down pointing triangle said it fired the executive allegedly caught on audio disparaging the company’s products.
But when she’s not signing books for her faithful readers, Carol glumly disparages her jackpot premise as if it’s a badly written “Star Trek” episode.
From Salon
“I don’t like using a book to refute things or to say anything disparaging about another person,” she clarifies.
From Los Angeles Times
He wants a full retraction of the Panorama documentary, an apology for the "false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading and inflammatory statements" made about him in it, and appropriate compensation "for the harm caused".
From BBC
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