denigration

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The act of making black.

Fig.: A blackening; defamation.

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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. Betty Friedan

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. Gustave Flaubert

In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise. James Lovelock

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds. Gene Robinson

Now, Rajinikanth has touched a raw nerve in Tamil Nadu politics with his reference to Periyar’s denigration of Hindu gods. Source: Internet

How did this come about - this blatant denial of history and the studied denigration of all that our people have held steadfastly sacred through long centuries of strife? Source: Internet

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