terms of disparagement
Example Sentences
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The universities are spoken of in terms of disparagement by men of all classes.
From Gibbon by Morison, James Cotter
After such a literary bankruptcy, it is no wonder that we find the later Greek and Roman writers using the words cyclic and cyclic poet as terms of disparagement.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Mazzetti spoke frequently of his colleague, Goré, and always in terms of disparagement.
From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna
Even the diminutive size of the New York member was mentioned in terms of disparagement.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
Twenty years hence the cabinet will be proscribed and its contents catalogued in those same terms of disparagement that the what-not became long since too dead to incur.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon
