How to Use disparage in a Sentence

disparage

verb
Definition of disparagenext
Synonyms for disparagenext
  • The article disparaged polo as a game for the wealthy.
  • It's a mistake to disparage their achievements.
  • Voters don't like political advertisements in which opponents disparage one another.
  • 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
  • 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, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
  • None of this is meant to disparage the phenomenal women athletes at the top of their game.
    — Steve Magness, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Trump, who was not sued in this case, has also made disparaging comments about Freeman.
    — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Throughout the night, Fox welcomed guests who echoed the Trump talking points and disparaged the justice system.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 9 June 2023
  • The French physicians who take up Martin’s case disparage the work of her Siberian doctors.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Trump heaps praise on nations that reject our values while disparaging those that share them.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The fliers may have been the result of tensions between neighbors, with one party trying to disparage the other.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 10 May 2017
  • But when people start to disparage Western medicine, that annoys me.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 22 May 2018

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