to disparage
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7.7
- verb
- /dɪsˈpærɪdʒ/
:
menospreciar
- But I will never allow anyone to disparage Toys-R-Us because for me, it was where I wanted to go when I was a kid.
- often disparaged
- disparaged mainstream culture
- disparage the achievement
I don't understand why Lynch disparaged architecture as such.
- I don't understand why Lynch disparaged architecture as such.
- So I don't disparage you for that, right.
- So in no way do I disparage people that are in this gnarly situation.
- And then he has to go in and disparage the Atlantic.
- Repeat that in your head every time you begin to disparage yourself.
- And this is ripe for them because they desperately want to disparage Gavin Newsom.
- Philosophy, he says, disparages faith and gives something else in its place.
- Sometimes they are concealed, sometimes they are disparaged and thereby never taken seriously.
- So it's completely within the the realm of possibility that there was attempts to disparage this.
- I do not want to disparage all trans people, I know and love some who are not like this.
- It is forsaken by the surrounding languages, ignored, disparaged and derided by them, severed from authority.
- But then some people from apparently the government leaked his medical reports and to try to to try to basically disparage his mental health.
Examples
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Never disparage your own child.
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In China, religion has been disparaged, at times suppressed, and generally subordinated to the needs of the state.
Academic text (1992) -
Only those who have never experienced it will want to disparage it.
Fiction book (2001) -
Repeat that in your head every time you begin to disparage yourself.
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And I know that growing up my mom made a conscious effort not to disparage our dad to us.
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- That doesn't give you the right to disparage my reputation.
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I will not stand to be disparaged.
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Well, look, first off, let me say that there are a lot of good police officers out there, and I don't want to in any way disparage what they do, all right?
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The convention was a radical project, and the old governing elite disparaged and ignored it.
Academic text (2017) -
Critics often disparage the director's latest film, claiming it lacks originality.
Synonyms
543
2.1
To say or do something rude to someone
115
3.5
To show a lack of respect for someone
115
6.8
Publicly criticize someone or something strongly
108
4.6
To make someone look silly in a mean way so others laugh at them
53
6.8
To make someone feel less respected or important
48
7.8
To say bad things about someone without a good reason to make them seem less important
45
5.0
To make someone or something seem not important
43
7.9
To say or write bad things about someone to harm them
33
7.7
To say harmful or false things about someone to hurt them
26
7.8
To make fun of someone in a cruel way
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7.5
Treat someone as shameful and not worthy of respect
15
7.6
To speak badly about someone behind their backs
15
6.4
To treat a person or thing as not worthy of respect
3
5.7
Keep finding small faults in someone or their ideas
1
8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
1
7.7
To say insulting things about someone to harm their reputation
To say bad things about someone in public to make them feel ashamed
Antonyms
How Critical
Surface Forms
Morphology
disparage = dis + parage
Although historically analyzable as dis- + parage, 'parage' is not a productive or recognizable English base, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Disparage comes from the parts dis- ('away, not') and parage ('rank' or 'status'), so it once meant to make someone lower in rank. That's why to disparage someone today is to speak of them as less valuable or worthy, showing little respect.