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The solicitor added: "The families have now been vindicated but only after years of being denigrated and dismissed by the health board."

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

Caesar denigrated situation comedies as soap operas with laughs added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The very traditional rap song takes the listener through a list of people who have wronged and denigrated the rapper's name.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2024

“We need to recognize that there were individuals here that were denigrated and that an apology is due to them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

“She traded me in for a better man,” he would say to Mammachi, and she would flinch as though he had denigrated her instead of himself.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy