Sample sentences for DISPARAGE

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Definition

to criticize or make seem less important — especially in a disrespectful or contemptuous manner

disparaging = criticizing or making seem less important

disparage = criticize

disparage = criticize

Rather than respond to her criticisms, he disparaged her efforts as those of an amateur.

disparaged = criticized

In 1980, Pakistan made it illegal to make disparaging remarks against people revered in Islam.

disparaging = critical

I would neither overrule Miranda, disparage it, nor extend it at this late date.
Chief Justice Warren Burger -- US Supreme Court Case: Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U. S. 291, 304 (1980)

disparage = criticize

Yet where do we end when we systematically disparage politicians and discredit politics? For politics is the heart of democracy.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- commencement addresses, Middlebury College, 1994
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The Bill Of Rights
The New York Times followed suit with a multiparter on "Class in America," which aims to disparage the notion that the U.S. is a land of opportunity...
Alan Reynolds -- Class Struggle? -- http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3773&print=Y (retrieved 06/29/06)
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.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

disparage = criticize

"She could've been looking at a bird behind you, stupid," came Hector's disparaging remark.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game

disparaging = criticizing

As is the Chinese cook's custom, my mother always made disparaging remarks about her own cooking.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

disparaging = critical or belittling

"College! What do them fellas know?..." And he spat a brown disparaging comment on the ground.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

disparaging = criticizing or making seem less important

Is there anything meaner then to throw necessary work upon other people and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

disparage = criticize or make seem less important

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

disparaging = criticizing

Sometimes people of Asian background get offended when their culture is described this way, because they think that the stereotype is being used as a form of disparagement.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

disparagement = criticism

But do not think that by praising these I am disparaging the others; all I mean to say is that the penances of those of the present day do not come up to the asceticism and austerity of former times;
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

disparaging = criticizing

...her teasing and disparaging remarks about his beloved nation!
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

disparaging = critical

Even a disparaging comment would be a personal link.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

disparaging = critical

There's an unwritten law that people in a certain social or financial bracket can name-drop as much as they like just as long as they say something terribly disparaging about the person as soon as they've dropped his name...
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

disparaging = critical

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