denigrate
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He said MSPs "should take care not to denigrate or damage the rule of law".
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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
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
But certainly, my script is not in an effort to denigrate Maggie’s experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
Climbers who snidely denigrate this as the Yak Route, I decided, had obviously never been through the Khumbu Icefall.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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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
“We do not believe that this depiction harms or denigrates the Jewish community,” the committee said Tuesday in a statement to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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
“Classical architecture is often denigrated by cultural elites,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
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
Instead, Macdonald provides clips of Lennon and Ono on talk shows discussing their marriage or disparaging his former Beatles bandmates for not standing up for Ono when the press denigrated her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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
“She traded me in for a better man,” he would say to Mammachi, and she would flinch as though he had denigrated her instead of himself.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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“Poverty and deprivation are no reflection on character, and there is no justification for denigrating the character of Haitians who suffer from and bear no responsibility for their country’s ills,” Justice Alito writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The “Mandalorian” actor was fired by Disney in 2021 for “her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities” that the company called “abhorrent and unacceptable.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
In the lead up to the Super Bowl, boosters of traditional sportsbooks have been denigrating prediction markets.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Earlier this year, Kelly — for what must be the first time — tried to promote positivity toward women without directly denigrating anyone else in the process.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2025
“You’ll learn, young brotha. You’ll learn. The Europeans succeeded in denigrating and enslaving peoples of African descent, but there’s royal blood flowing through your veins, you hear me?”
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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