Put down

Usage examples of denigrate.

I do not desire to undermine or in any way denigrate the achievements of Dr.

Nor does it deny or denigrate the fact that human beings must, in large measure, work out their non-determined fate with diligence.

Such people point to the most fearsome of the barbarian nations, the Franks and the Huns, whose leaders are all soldiers by training and custom, and who denigrate book learning as unworthy of their skills.

I say this not to denigrate those favored ones, like yourself, who have been graced with the gift of unquestioning belief, but rather to acknowledge the reality facing the rest of humankind, who struggle daily in the quest for God and meaning in their lives.

I had been inclined in the past to denigrate that much-vaunted quality of theirs, having so often found their inventions and discoveries to be as impractical as, for instance, their circle divided into three hundred sixty-five and a quarter segments.

If it did not explicitly or implicitly denigrate the Hindus, it made them impugn themselves.

Thus, the appeal to the idea of a generalised, supposedly inclusive, human nature is likely in practice to marginalise, or denigrate, or even deny the humanity of women, or disadvantaged groups.

You would keep them, and keep your own dowry and by that, denigrate his titles, bastardize his honor and emasculate the man.

He denigrated the Fedayeen as little more than a speed bump on the way to Baghdad and never appreciated their resilience and determination.

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.

Their message, whether promoting immorality or denigrating religious faith, becomes bolder and bolder as we approach the end of the age.

Without denigrating your curriculum area, I am sure you will agree that mathematics and English do take up far more time than art and design.

I wished to put him in a good mood again, but I was beginning to wonder if there was any subject that could be discussed without its blatantly or subtly denigrating the Hindus.

A loving, multidimensionally masculine father shows them how to be men without denigrating women or their need for them.

The entire complexity and recognition was denigrated as being messianic, millennnial, chiliastic, soteriological, pleratic, and silly.