disparager

Example Sentences

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In talking about Novelist Gore Vidal, disparager of all mankind, Reagan got a twinkle in his eye and allowed as how even Vidal might err.

From Time Magazine Archive

You know how glad I shall be to see my old-time critic and disparager, but let me add frankly that I want to ask you a few professional, or, rather, technical, questions.

From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon

Cato himself, who was certainly no disparager of his own merits, says that a great many were killed, but he specifies no number.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus

Bracciolini, and not Tacitus, a disparager of persons in  high places.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson

By the bye, I suspected M. of being the disparager of the frame; hence a certain line.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary