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verb

disparage

CEFR C2

to regard or represent as being of little worth

In a sentence

Six example sentences with disparage, each labelled with its topic.

  • Rival founders disparaged the tool as a toy until it quietly took forty percent of the enterprise market.

    Startups

  • Veterans disparage the new expansion in every forum thread, though most of them have already logged sixty hours in it.

    Gaming

  • Early reviewers disparaged the pocket calculator as a novelty, and within four years slide rules had vanished from classrooms.

    Technology

  • Critics disparaged the first Impressionist show as unfinished sketches, and those canvases now fill the world's museums.

    Art

  • Fans disparage the rookie's jump shot online, but the coaching staff watch his footwork and see a starter.

    Basketball

  • Plato disparaged the poets as mere imitators, and the argument has kept literature departments busy ever since.

    Philosophy

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