disparage

He called upon people to love their enemies, not rebuke them or disparage their existence.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

In the letter terminating Pelley's contract on Tuesday, Bilton accused him of hijacking the staff meeting to disparage Bilton, his qualificatons and intentions with "remarkable incivility and contempt".

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

“At no point in time did I mean, or was it my intent, to disparage a jury,” Connolly said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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 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 ● Nov. 26, 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

First, I would never put my name on a bill that targets, disparages, harms the trans or LGBTQ+ community.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2023

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

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Moreover, the tools that America helped build to tackle shared global threats, like international law and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, have been disparaged and undermined.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2026

Many in older generations disparaged them as vanities, rather than embracing them as medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

ANL's lawyers have staunchly denied the allegations, previously calling the case "without foundation" and an "affront" to hard-working journalists whose reputations had been disparaged.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

“I know you don’t like seeing your girlfriend or whatever disparaged like that, but these guys have been doing this for years. That graffiti was probably from last year or before.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Two unidentified media members were heard making disparaging comments about players Scottie Barnes and Jonathan Mogbo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

He added a Canadian flag emoji and the caption "this is real" - an apparent attempt at disparaging Canada's military by making fun of the pair's appearance.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

And with technology growing as rapidly as it is, it behooves the company’s bottom line to avoid damning and disparaging devices outright.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

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

He took me through each move that the two had made, disparaging a Bronstein choice one moment, lauding another the next.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady