terms of disparagement
Example Sentences
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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)
The universities are spoken of in terms of disparagement by men of all classes.
From Gibbon by Morison, James Cotter
For Afy had once hinted in terms of disparagement at that very apron.
From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
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
Nothing could be a happier fate for her; and you will be no friend to her if you use any foolish terms of disparagement of him because he does not happen to please your fancy.'
From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
