disparage
- to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- to bring reproach or discredit upon; lower the estimation of: Your behavior will disparage the whole family.
Origin of disparage
Synonyms for disparage
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malign, dismiss, decry, ridicule, defame, denigrate, discredit, deride, belittle, scorn, vilify, underrate, slander, degrade, dispirit, undervalue, slam, rap, traduce, dejectExamples from the Web for disparage
Contemporary Examples of disparage
You have to be sexy, but remember that your sexuality can and will be used at any point in time to disparage you.
Let’s Put an End to ‘THOT’: The Misogynistic Phrase That’s Sweeping the NationAmanda Marcotte
June 23, 2014
Whether or not the team “intends” to disparage anyone, they are.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
They disparage his trip to a Navy shipbuilder as a “road show.”
I do NOT disparage the Asian community, but the fact is there r some bizs that can do better!
Historical Examples of disparage
Nothing is more unjust than to disparage one sex relatively to the other.
The Sexual QuestionAugust Forel
It would have its work done, and be free to disparage those who have laboured for it.'
Gerald FitzgeraldCharles James Lever
It may shun, deprecate, disparage, but it never despises them.
Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2)Charles James Lever
I do not disparage one of her attractions, and she has scores of them.
Lord KilgobbinCharles Lever
She means to discredit my station, and disparage my influence; how shall I reply to her?
A Day's RideCharles James Lever
disparage
- to speak contemptuously of; belittle
- to damage the reputation of
Word Origin for disparage
Word Origin and History for disparage
early 14c., "degrade socially," from Old French desparagier (Modern French déparager) "reduce in rank, degrade, devalue, depreciate," originally "to marry unequally," and thus by extension the disgrace or dishonor involved in this, from des- "away" (see dis-) + parage "rank, lineage" (see peer (n.)). Sense of "belittle" first recorded 1530s. Related: Disparaged; disparaging; disparagingly.