terms of disparagement
Example Sentences
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Mazzetti spoke frequently of his colleague, Goré, and always in terms of disparagement.
From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna
The universities are spoken of in terms of disparagement by men of all classes.
From Gibbon by Morison, James Cotter
After such a literary bankruptcy, it is no wonder that we find the later Greek and Roman writers using the words cyclic and cyclic poet as terms of disparagement.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
For Afy had once hinted in terms of disparagement at that very apron.
From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
It is ever an ungracious task to speak in terms of disparagement of a lady.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)