disparagement
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Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.
Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to.
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The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflict between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.
Think, ladies and gentlemen, of your "Men of Harlech". In my judgment, for the purpose of a national air... and without disparagement of old "God save the Queen" or anything else, it is perhaps the finest national air in the world.
Many of the older Sophists were selected as "ambassadors" of their cities, certainly no office of disrespect. The name Sophist was even applied without disparagement to Socrates and Plato themselves.
Bring such a patriot yourself I wonder how you manage to square Trump’s lack of service and disparagement of you, one of the suckers who did serve honorably.
It is easy to intensely dislike someone like Stephen “cock-holster” Colbert for his foul disparagement of the president, or the insipid Jimmy Kimmel, for making his child’s illness all about his Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Stanton, Eighty Years & More, p.23 Understanding from this that her father valued boys above girls, Stanton tearfully took her disappointment to Hosack, whose firm belief in her abilities counteracted her father's perceived disparagement.