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denigrate

[den-i-greyt] / ˈdɛn ɪˌgreɪt /


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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

Films are poignant and important, no matter how much the institutions designed to award them have come to denigrate them.

From Salon Jan. 13, 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

Inventors thereby have a financial incentive to denigrate or ignore previous work.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

It issued a four-page fact-check of the book that denigrates Wynn-Williams’ ostensibly “new” claims by asserting that they were mostly published previously, and even helpfully provides links to the original reports.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2025

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

Wamp also denigrates TYT's reporting, without specifying any errors in it.

From Salon Feb. 2, 2023

“I think anything that denigrates other people, I have to respectfully decline,” she said.

From Washington Times Jul. 29, 2021

Caesar denigrated situation comedies as soap operas with laughs added.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

Last year, Badenoch faced criticism from Nigeria's vice-president, who said she had "denigrated" the West African country.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2025

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

By the mid-20th-century, however, leading behavioral theorists denigrated the idea of studying animal emotions since, even if they existed, they were scientifically unmeasurable and unverifiable.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 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

“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

In the lead up to the Super Bowl, boosters of traditional sportsbooks have been denigrating prediction markets.

From Barron's Feb. 6, 2026

“It is likely that a very unhappy human came up with the idea of denigrating the holiday experience, even if AI was used to create part of the ad.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

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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