Sample Sentences for
disparage
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    Rather than respond to her criticisms, he disparaged her efforts as those of an amateur.
    disparaged = criticized
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    In 1980, Pakistan made it illegal to make disparaging remarks against people revered in Islam.
    disparaging = critical
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    ...her teasing and disparaging remarks about his beloved nation!  (source)
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    Snape made a small, disparaging noise.  (source)
    disparaging = contemptuous (critical and disrespectful)
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    He said he wouldn't suffer a word to be uttered in his disparagement:  (source)
    disparagement = criticism
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    When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.  (source)
    disparage = criticize
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    My dad, for example, has never disparaged hard work, but he mistrusts some of the most obvious paths to upward mobility.  (source)
    disparaged = criticized or made seem unimportant
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    MARTHA: George talks disparagingly about the little bugger because . . . well, because he has problems.  (source)
    disparagingly = with criticism or in a manner to make the child seem less important
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    He feels tenderness toward her when she disparages herself this way.  (source)
    disparages = criticizes
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    A silly fellow would have brought in these articles as an addition to her fortune; but, to give him his due, he never mentioned any such matter; though to be sure they are no disparagements to a woman.†  (source)
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    As is the Chinese cook's custom, my mother always made disparaging remarks about her own cooking.  (source)
    disparaging = critical or belittling
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    The name Sophist was even applied without disparagement to Socrates and Plato themselves.  (source)
    disparagement = criticism
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    The maltster, being now pacified, was even generous enough to voluntarily disparage in a slight degree the virtue of having lived a great many years,  (source)
    disparage = make seem less important
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