denigrate

But Ms. Glendon does not denigrate rights; far from it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

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

And they don’t denigrate that person—they honor her.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

There are people and communities I want to see celebrated in a world that denigrates them.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020

“Classical architecture is often denigrated by cultural elites,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

“We need to recognize that there were individuals here that were denigrated and that an apology is due to them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

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

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson pledged to recruit 6,500 new teachers, and said the profession had been "talked down, sidelined and denigrated" for too long.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024

I know my parents had their reasons to raise us without religion, but it still upsets me to hear my grandmother's peaceful beliefs denigrated.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“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