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disparagingly
adverb as in unfavorably
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Colored people had to sit in the balcony of the movie theater, often disparagingly called the “peanut gallery.”
One record exec at the time disparagingly called it a “rock version of a corporate merger.”
South Africans disparagingly call them tenderpreneurs—people who use political connections to secure government procurement contracts.
We see Isaac scowl at another cop who is gleefully telling a story about knocking out the teeth of an unarmed protester he disparagingly refers to as a Voter.
At hundreds of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in recent weeks, the terms “Zionism” or “Zionist” have been hurled disparagingly against Jewish students and pro-Israel demonstrators.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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