terms of disparagement
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For Afy had once hinted in terms of disparagement at that very apron.
From East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
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 Harry Leon Wilson
The universities are spoken of in terms of disparagement by men of all classes.
From Gibbon by James Cotter Morison
Mazzetti spoke frequently of his colleague, Goré, and always in terms of disparagement.
From Gigolo by Edna Ferber
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 Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
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