disparaging
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Through public-records requests, residents obtained internal messages from city officials that many in Festus find disparaging, including one referring to data-center opponents as a “sideshow of uneducated people.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 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 "Japan glazer" is "someone who puts everything that comes from Japan on a pedestal, while disparaging things that come from their own country", Louzembi said.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
She denied the disparaging accusations and in the 2013 interview said detractors believed she was a "soft target".
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
Nately reacted on sight with bristling enmity to this wicked, depraved and unpatriotic old man who was old enough to remind him of his father and who made disparaging jokes about America.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing disparaging
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