disparages

Verb

disparage (third-person singular simple present disparages, present participle disparaging, simple past and past participle disparaged)

1. (obsolete) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
   • Alas! that any of my nation
     Should ever so foul disparaged be.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer....
2. 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.
   • August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
     those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious

   Synonyms:

   denigrate, belittle, vilipend, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean

3. To ridicule, mock, discredit.
   • Had he disparaged my personal appearance I should in all probability have laughed at him with lively indifference1878, Mrs. Forrest-Grant, Riversdale Court: A Novel

   Synonyms:

   befool, excoriate, lampoon, scorn, chaff, forgab, frump, gleek, jape, jeer

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