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Six example sentences with denigrate, each labelled with its topic.
Children who hear a parent denigrate their drawings often stop showing anyone their work by the age of nine.
Psychology
Critics of the 1920s denigrated jazz as noise, and the same reviews now hang framed in the club's entryway.
Music
The mayor answered the audit by denigrating the auditors themselves, calling them amateurs rather than addressing a single finding.
Politics
Commentators denigrated the center's game for years, calling him slow, until the numbers showed how often he won.
Basketball
Early critics denigrated the impressionists as sloppy painters, and one review called their canvases unfinished sketches.
Art
Colleagues denigrated the idea of drifting continents for decades, and the seafloor surveys eventually proved it right.
Science
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