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denigrate

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Fans might expect the men in charge of the four major North American pro sports leagues, the NBA included, to step up and act whenever something or someone denigrates the purity of the game, or when societal right-and-wrongs seep into the sport.

From the left came mainly words of dismay and indignation for the severity of the sentence, while the right denigrated Lucano.

From Time

Still, in the web’s ghastly crawl spaces, a series of inflammatory subreddits and Facebook groups are cropping up to declare Laundrie the real victim in this weeks-long drama, and denigrating Petito herself as the abuser.

So instead of feeling denigrated or ostracized, they feel seen and valued as part of the academic community.

The reality, though, is that Carlson is espousing an obviously false line in an effort to both denigrate Democrats as desperate and to cast immigrants as a dangerous force aimed at toppling America as we know it.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to denigrate, such as: besmirch, defame, disparage, impugn, slander, and vilify.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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