All 12 Uses of
disparage
in
Little Dorrit
- The speaker, with a whimsical good humour upon him all the time, looked over the parapet-wall with the greatest disparagement of Marseilles; and taking up a determined position by putting his hands in his pockets and rattling his money at it, apostrophised it with a short laugh.†
Chpt 1.2
- Little Dorrit entreated him to disparage neither himself nor his station, and, above all things, to divest himself of any idea that she supposed hers to be superior.†
Chpt 1.18
- She is to disparage him just as much as she likes, without any check—I suppose because he has been in the law, and the docks, and different things.†
Chpt 1.20
- In this belief, to be sure, they had long been carefully trained by the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings, who were always proclaiming to them, officially, that no country which failed to submit itself to those two large families could possibly hope to be under the protection of Providence; and who, when they believed it, disparaged them in private as the most prejudiced people under the sun.†
Chpt 1.25
- We will not disparage this gentleman, because he is successful in his addresses to the beautiful object of his ambition; and we will not question her natural right to bestow her love on one whom she finds worthy of it.'†
Chpt 1.26
- …the sound of her voice, to be in a horizontal posture, awaiting her breakfast; and from which bower that inexorable lady snapped off short taunts, whenever she could get a hearing, as, 'Don't believe it's his doing!' and 'He needn't take no credit to himself for it!' and 'It'll be long enough, I expect, afore he'll give up any of his own money!' all designed to disparage Clennam's share in the discovery, and to relieve those inveterate feelings with which Mr F.'s Aunt regarded him.†
Chpt 1.35
- Because rescued people of interesting appearance are not, for eight or nine months out of every twelve, holding on here round the necks of the most sagacious of dogs carrying wooden bottles, shall we disparage the place?†
Chpt 2.1
- Howbeit, these two subjects were very often on his lips; and he managed them so well that he might have praised himself by the month together, and not have made himself out half so important a man as he did by his light disparagement of his claims on anybody's consideration.†
Chpt 2.6
- In truth, their state was rather too high for the lodging, which was, as Fanny complained, 'fearfully out of the way,' and which took them through a complexity of narrow streets of water, which the same lady disparaged as 'mere ditches.'†
Chpt 2.6
- They paid high for poor accommodation, and disparaged a place while they pretended to like it: which was exactly the Marshalsea custom.†
Chpt 2.7
- Mr Flintwinch, after scraping his chin, and looking about with caustic disparagement of the Pig-Market, nodded to Arthur, and followed.†
Chpt 2.28
- I have heard disparagement, in connection with a French jail and an accusation of murder.
Chpt 2.30 *disparagement = criticism
Definition:
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(disparage) to criticize or make seem less important -- especially in a disrespectful or contemptuous manner