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How to use disparaging in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective, noun

Disparaging means insulting, ridiculing. Example: “The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.”

Examples of disparaging by meaning

adjectiveInsulting, ridiculing.

  • The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.
  • While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47
  • It was the latest instance of Trump using dehumanizing and disparaging rhetoric as he targets undocumented immigrants and vows mass deportations if he’s reelected.2024 October 7, Kate Sullivan, “Trump suggests undocumented immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’”, in CNN

More sentences with disparaging

  • The soul of wit for them is disparaging relevance: the persistent searching out of weakness.2014, Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy, The Urban Ethnography Reader, →ISBN, page 340. From the entry pisstake
  • King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version.2013 October 2, Alex Pappademas, “Leuqes! LEUQES! LEUQES! – The Shining sequel and what it says about Stephen King”, in Grantland.com…. From the entry hew
  • The expression, "washed out," became extremely common, and not necessarily in any sense disparaging to the "washee."1946, Intellect, volume 63, page 290. From the entry washee
  • Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27…. From the entry assimilation
  • Ernest Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence.1980, P. D. James, Innocent Blood. From the entry ernest
  • He is an intellectual— if one may use that term today without connoting anything of a disparaging or traducent significance.1950, Leslie Ford, Murder is the Pay-Off, page 5. From the entry traducent
  • Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48. From the entry analysis
  • But this, their ‘Englishness’, has called forth disparaging remarks about ‘Black Englishmen’, more often than not despised by ‘puritanic’ Englishmen for copying the English badly.1990, Akintola J[osephus] G[ustavus] Wyse, “Background to politics in the twentieth century”, in H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in…. From the entry ludicrity
  • Well walla is a disparaging term for a Belter who acts like an Earther (well is for the “gravity well” of Earth, and walla means person in Hindi).2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars…. From the entry Hindi

Meaning of disparaging

  1. adjective Insulting, ridiculing.
  2. noun Disparagement.

Full definition of disparaging

Questions about disparaging in a sentence

How do you use disparaging in a sentence?
Disparaging is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.”
What is a short sentence with disparaging?
“Ernest Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence.”
What does disparaging mean?
Disparaging means insulting, ridiculing.

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