disparage

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

The bank published a report in 1993 which helped disparage industrial policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Spielberg, for his part, was careful not to disparage streaming.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

The signage removal comes after a March 2025 executive order called for the review of over 400 national sites to remove or modify interpretive materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

And there is always the non-productive brotherhood of critics to disparage and to satirize, to view with horror and contempt.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Warsh regularly disparages such models and the “economics guild” that developed them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

But it also disparages those susceptible to pseudofolliculitis barbae, a medical condition primarily affecting Black men like the show’s razor-shy recruit, wherein regular shaving causes inflammation and a higher likelihood of scarring and developing keloids.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025

The order also directed officials to ensure that monuments do not contain content that disparages Americans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

I would like to point out that the 18th-century world Messinger so disparages also gave us the freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

He feels tenderness toward her when she disparages herself this way.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Kates also advised Epstein to “lay very low and quiet” and disparaged those who had distanced themselves from him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Other research has been disparaged for not using proper quality-control measures.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

He disparaged Denmark in particular when recalling how in 1940 it "fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland".

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

But this isn’t just a victory lap; this documentary is also for everyone who disparaged the festival or didn’t feel like it was for them.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

Openly, Bobby disparaged how he’d performed, but the Soviet chess establishment was dazzled by how he managed to place so high under such arduous conditions.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

According to an official club incident report, Gabbert didn’t realize he was talking to McArthur’s mom and proceeded to make disparaging comments about her daughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

She once received a refund after a flight attendant made a disparaging remark about how she was dressed.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026

A spokesperson for Flynn responded to detailed questions from ProPublica by disparaging experts who expressed concerns, texting, “LOL ‘EXPERTS.’”

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2026

Sportsmanship and maturity seem less important than disparaging Canadians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

He knew not to contradict him or ever say anything disparaging about Staten Island.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova