disparage
Example Sentences
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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
In Sophocles, his character is little discussed but certainly not disparaged, and his death was a violent killing, not a car accident.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
