terms of disparagement
Example Sentences
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For Afy had once hinted in terms of disparagement at that very apron.
From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
It is ever an ungracious task to speak in terms of disparagement of a lady.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
Wright never spoke of his commander without using terms of disparagement, and dwelling on his incapacity.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John
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
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
