disparage
Example Sentences
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It also barred comments that could “defame, disparage or in any way criticize” LAUSD, its employees and leaders.
From Los Angeles Times
Mark: It sounds, in many ways, that you rely on on the human being side of things rather than - I don't mean this in a disparaging way - rather than a flipchart.
From BBC
A state personnel board law judge reviewing the discipline called Vandepas’ remarks “rude and disparaging” and the full board this month rejected her appeal.
From Los Angeles Times
He knew not to contradict him or ever say anything disparaging about Staten Island.
From Literature
Kates also advised Epstein to “lay very low and quiet” and disparaged those who had distanced themselves from him.
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