terms of disparagement
Example Sentences
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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 Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
Wright never spoke of his commander without using terms of disparagement, and dwelling on his incapacity.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John
Mazzetti spoke frequently of his colleague, Goré, and always in terms of disparagement.
From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna
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 Wilson, Harry Leon
The universities are spoken of in terms of disparagement by men of all classes.
From Gibbon by Morison, James Cotter
