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  • 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
  • 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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  • He gave me a disparaging look as he chewed.  (source)
    disparaging = criticizing
  • 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
  • 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.  (source)
    disparagement = criticism
  • Africans in Egypt also faced racial discrimination—they were disparaged as "chocolata" or "honga bonga" by some hostile Egyptians, who were growing weary of their uninvited guests.  (source)
    disparaged = criticized or made seem less important
  • "Oh, they only know flashy stuff that's of no real use to anyone," said Hermione disparagingly.  (source)
    disparagingly = in a way to make it seem less important
  • He feels tenderness toward her when she disparages herself this way.  (source)
    disparages = criticizes
  • 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)
  • As is the Chinese cook's custom, my mother always made disparaging remarks about her own cooking.  (source)
    disparaging = critical or belittling
  • Is there anything meaner then to throw necessary work upon other people and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate.  (source)
    disparage = criticize or make seem less important
  • The name Sophist was even applied without disparagement to Socrates and Plato themselves.  (source)
    disparagement = criticism
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