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verb

denigrate

to criticize unfairly; disparage

In a sentence

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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