disparage
verb (used with object)
to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle.
disparager
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a word derived from
disparage.
Example Sentences
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In talking about Novelist Gore Vidal, disparager of all mankind, Reagan got a twinkle in his eye and allowed as how even Vidal might err.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the bye, I suspected M. of being the disparager of the frame; hence a certain line.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
Cato himself, who was certainly no disparager of his own merits, says that a great many were killed, but he specifies no number.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Titus Livius
Bracciolini, and not Tacitus, a disparager of persons in high places.
From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross
You know how glad I shall be to see my old-time critic and disparager, but let me add frankly that I want to ask you a few professional, or, rather, technical, questions.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Algernon Blackwood
