How to Use denigrate in a Sentence

denigrate

verb
Definition of denigratenext
Synonyms for denigratenext
  • Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher.
  • No one is trying to denigrate the importance of a good education. We all know that it is crucial for success.
  • The term poor white trash serves the same purpose—to dismiss, to deny, to denigrate.
    — Christian Livermore, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The object of the show is not to denigrate either party.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 28 May 2020
  • Not to denigrate the loss of life, but this might give us some hope from something terrible.
    — Jonathan Watts and Niko Kommenda, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The word that was removed is an ethnic slur that has been used to denigrate Black people in South Africa.
    — James Briggs and Jack Guy, CNN, 17 June 2021
  • That’s not to denigrate the others, which are wonderful in their own way.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • This is by no means at attempt to denigrate the tremendous role our seaports play in U.S. trade.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The cheerleader had been denigrated for so long in teen movies.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2024
  • She’s taunted with an ethnic slur used to denigrate Italians who are allied against Britain in the war.
    — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Just a couple of years ago, egirl was a slur used to denigrate women streaming games on Twitch, to write them off as PG-13 camgirls-for-gamers.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 2 June 2021
  • No one has been able to visit Logan for the better part of a week, for very good reason, but the old man’s first order of business is to denigrate his son.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • That is in no way to denigrate Kendrick Nunn, just to recognize the reality of more upside with Tyler.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The accounts were set up to encourage support of the regime and denigrate the opposition.
    — David Smagalla, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Which suggests that the wine industry will denigrate them — or just ignore them — at its own peril.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2021
  • These changes laid the groundwork for our current era, in which the private sector and the market are celebrated while the public and the state are denigrated.
    — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2023
  • For all that McConnell and his ilk denigrate state and local aid as bailouts to blue states, four of the states mentioned above are politically blood-red.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • What some of them left behind amounts to a grim warning about the power of a utopian ideology to deceive and denigrate the human mind.
    — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 28 Oct. 2022
  • That’s a fact -- one that isn’t meant to denigrate or cheapen their 11-win season, an accomplishment for the franchise to be proud of no matter what teams were on the schedule.
    — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 12 May 2021
  • This isn’t the first time that Cruz has denigrated peaceful protesters.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Those that seek to denigrate the erstwhile pursuit of the AI Confinement Problem are missing the bigger picture.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • While lots of men have long embraced the leg-widening of our trousers, some Gen Z corners of the internet seemed to have only just discovered the trend—in order to denigrate it, of course.
    — Mario Abad, Robb Report, 24 May 2023
  • This note is not to denigrate those three, who were put in an impossible position.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
  • This isn’t to denigrate the second-year shortstop, but rather reinforce the task ahead for whomever replaces Altuve.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023
  • However, Vecepia has a message for those who may try to denigrate her season 4 run.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • To pay attention to what a powerful woman wears is often dismissed as a way to denigrate her.
    — Vanessa Friedman New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • There is speculation that some of the comments dug up as part of the discovery process showed Carlson denigrating Fox News.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • That doesn't denigrate his impact on the Sooners, who have looked like a completely different team in the six full quarters that the true freshman has been running the offense.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
  • To be clear, the rat reference wasn’t meant to denigrate the caliber of candidates lining up to compete for the nomination.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The Irish were denigrated as lazy, as stupid, as incompetent.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024

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