terms of disparagement
Example Sentences
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Twenty years hence the cabinet will be proscribed and its contents catalogued in those same terms of disparagement that the what-not became long since too dead to incur.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
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 Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
Even the diminutive size of the New York member was mentioned in terms of disparagement.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
Mazzetti spoke frequently of his colleague, Goré, and always in terms of disparagement.
From Gigolo by Edna Ferber
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 Denton Jaques Snider
