disparage
verb (used with object)
to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle.
have disparaged
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present perfectof disparage.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The club’s members come from a diverse array of backgrounds - including the children of some adults who have disparaged the group.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
With no governmental tool available, such analyses are performed by small firms that major companies have disparaged.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023
I have disparaged these mind-centric frameworks as neo-geocentrism, throwbacks to the ancient assumption that the universe revolves around us.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2020
Grewal argues that the signature acoustics critics have disparaged is actually a very conscious choice on the part of the company, one that comes from the DNA of its creators, Iovine and Dre.
From The Verge ● Jun. 12, 2014
He would have disparaged Mozart and Beethoven, if they had been contemporary, just as he would have acknowledged the merits of Wagner and Richard Strauss had they been dead for a century.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan
