How to Use disparage in a Sentence

disparage

verb
Definition of disparagenext
Synonyms for disparagenext
  • Voters don't like political advertisements in which opponents disparage one another.
  • After someone dies, fans often turn on those who try to disparage them.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • No matter how disparaging the reviews, his movies turned a profit.
    — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2024
  • Most of her friends were white and would make disparaging remarks about Hispanics.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • How could someone place me on a pedestal only to callously disparage and toss me aside weeks later?
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • And they are often disparaged and decried; they are often treated with contempt.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
  • What links the narratives to Russia is not only the content disparaging Ukraine but also the networks that circulate them.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Stevenson, a true intellectual brilliant at formal speechmaking, despised the new medium and disparaged it.
    — TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Sometimes, but not always, these clauses are mutual, which means that the employer cannot technically disparage the employee either.
    — Christine Shen, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Mocking and even disparaging educators can be protected free speech as long as the posts don't threaten anyone or substantially disrupt school activities.
    — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 8 July 2024
  • The state promised not to disparage Mr. Loewen as well.
    — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • Slabe said the upshot of the research was not to disparage hunters.
    — Christina Larson, ajc, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The artist has opened up in the past about disparaging comments made about her image.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Trump has gone out of his way to disparage Jeff Sessions.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The fact is, the author used a single data point to disparage the union.
    — Naperville Sun, 1 June 2018
  • One of them went so far as to disparage a white colleague’s young Black son.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2022
  • To say that many of these films were made with persuasion in mind is not to disparage them.
    — Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There’s no reason to disparage or hold that against the program.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2019
  • For half a season, he was disparaged as not being a true point guard.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Cheryl agrees to write a piece in the school newspaper disparaging Sheriff Keller's work.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Some Texas Tech fans in Lubbock made a sign disparaging Gundy’s taste in restaurants.
    — Matt Jennings, ajc, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Toward the end, Shilling added the aside disparaging the Sheriff’s Office.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 June 2023
  • That didn’t stop some people from disparaging the protest.
    — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The trolls regularly disparaged Ryan and spread some fake news about the speaker.
    — Kevin Crowe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Both sides disparaging the other, and both sides beating up their own to make sure two of ours or two of theirs did not make it into the top two.
    — Amy Chance, sacbee, 11 June 2018
  • Not to disparage the worth of big stars, but in many ways George was too deep and profound to become a big pop sensation.
    — Mike Barnes, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2021
  • In the settlement, both Black and Cranley agreed not to disparage each other.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Witherspoon was disparaged by Meryl Streep, who was playing the mother of a man who abused his wife.
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 15 June 2019
  • When the Cowboys drafted Scott on April 29, many fans reacted online to the slow 40 time and disparaged the choice.
    — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • The wife just told me that during one of their battles her husband accused me and Travis of saying disparaging things about her.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023

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