disparage

Speech parts

1. disparage - Noun

2. disparage - Verb

Meaning

To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

degrade depreciate belittle vilify underrate undervalue bash attack pan slam deflate slight abuse minimize knock
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Antonyms

flatter billboard back support adore respect
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Hypernyms

knock criticise criticize pick apart

Hyponyms

pan minimize trash disgrace denigrate depreciate

Derivatives

disparaged disparaging

Examples

She disparaged her student's efforts Source: Internet

A number of these postmodern philosophers have thus appeared to disparage Platonism from more or less informed perspectives. Source: Internet

But we’ve long known that Trump’s people disparage him as unfit and full of it. Source: Internet

Mainers like to disparage zucchini, which grow inexhaustibly in everybody’s gardens at this time of year. Source: Internet

I am not saying this to disparage or begrudge the media, intellectual, and cultural elites of Southwest Nigeria but to show that El-Rufai’s politics of ethnic and religious supremacy isn’t blind and unbridled. Source: Internet

Since then, the asterisk has essentially become the punctuational equivalent of the word “hipster”; something that is frequently pulled out by people who want to disparage things they don’t like regardless of how valid their argument is. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dispansion disparadise disparadised disparageable disparaged myself disparagement