disparage

“To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character.”

Im scraped together low-value land in a backwater known for its seedy motels and opened the theme park — a decision his friends disparaged.

The disparaging comment helped trigger Dickerson’s trade to the Indianapolis Colts.

He disparaged a colleague’s Black son as a prop carried like a Louis Vuitton handbag, suggested Black people have too much political power and made other demeaning remarks about activists and constituents.

I was raised by a sweet henpecked father, who would have said something disparaging about himself to get me to help him with his computer or read tiny print.