denigrate

Example Sentences

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But Ms. Glendon does not denigrate rights; far from it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

He said MSPs "should take care not to denigrate or damage the rule of law".

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

After a week of hearing various US officials denigrate Europe, its leaders and its regulations at Davos, ECB chief Christine Lagarde said Friday that the harsh words could be just what the continent needed.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Films are poignant and important, no matter how much the institutions designed to award them have come to denigrate them.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

Climbers who snidely denigrate this as the Yak Route, I decided, had obviously never been through the Khumbu Icefall.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer