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denigrating

denigrating \denigrating\ adj. harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

Syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous.

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denigrating

vb. (present participle of denigrate English)

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denigrating

adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]

Usage examples of "denigrating".

To qualify for that rather denigrating description there must exist comparative terms of reference to justify its use: unfortunately for the remainder of the passengers there were two others aboard that plane who would have made anyone look nondescript.

You can't expect me to condone, far less agree with, denigrating remarks about our Chief of Police.

But it didn't take my analytical mind, the one you're always denigrating, very long to figure it out.

He is in fact denigrating an entire series of developmental stages that represented extraordinary advances in their own ways, and were no more a perversion of spiritual development than an acorn is a perversion of an oak.

In a world increasingly awash with illegitimate children, he increasingly resented his own illegitimacy, referring to it ill-temperedly on inappropriate occasions and denigrating the father who, for all his haste into bed with Alicia, had accepted Gervase publicly always as his son, and given him his surname with legal adoption.