All 3 Uses of
disparage
in
East of Eden
- The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them, reverent or irreverent, descriptive, either poetic or disparaging.†
Chpt 1disparaging = criticizing or making seem less important
- By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged.†
Chpt 13disparagement = the act of criticizing or making seem less important
- "College! What do them fellas know?..." And he spat a brown disparaging comment on the ground.
Chpt 29 *disparaging = criticizing or making seem less important
Definition:
to criticize or make seem less important -- especially in a disrespectful or contemptuous manner