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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disparage
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a disparaging remark (=one that shows you do not think someone or something is very good)
▪ My aunt always makes disparaging remarks about my appearance.
a disparaging/derogatory comment (=criticizing someone or something in an unpleasant way)
▪ Never make disparaging comments about a colleague’s work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "The comments were not meant to disparage any company's products," stated the publisher.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Goffmann points out these signs have been neglected or disparaged as trivial items.
▪ His primary outside interest is golf, though he disparages his 15 handicap.
▪ I do not wish to disparage these inquiries.
▪ Many who vigorously disparaged his accomplishment came to share his aspiration...
▪ Rather than disparaging the familiarity of such stories, we should celebrate the fact these great men exist.
▪ The ways for women to escape or understand their circumstances are systematically disparaged.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disparage

Disparage \Dis"pa*rage`\, n. Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Dissuaded her from such a disparage.
--Spenser.

Disparage

Disparage \Dis*par"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disparaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Disparaging.] [OF. desparagier, F. d['e]parager, to marry unequally; pref. des- (L. dis-) + F. parage extraction, lineage, from L. par equal, peer. See Peer.]

  1. To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. [Obs.]

    Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be.
    --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.

    Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious.
    --Bp. Atterbury.

    Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
    --Milton.

    Syn: To decry; depreciate; undervalue; underrate; cheapen; vilify; reproach; detract from; derogate from; degrade; debase. See Decry.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disparage

early 14c., "degrade socially," from Old French desparagier (Modern French déparager) "reduce in rank, degrade, devalue, depreciate," originally "to marry unequally," and thus by extension the disgrace or dishonor involved in this, from des- "away" (see dis-) + parage "rank, lineage" (see peer (n.)). Sense of "belittle" first recorded 1530s. Related: Disparaged; disparaging; disparagingly.

Wiktionary
disparage

n. (context obsolete English) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. vb. 1 To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor. 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. 3 To ridicule, mock, discredit.

WordNet
disparage

v. express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" [syn: belittle, pick at] [ant: flatter]

Usage examples of "disparage".

I am unable to think of a good out at once, so I accompany Ambrose, and when we arrive at the theater, we find the manager, who is a guy by the name of James Burdekin, walking up and down in front of the joint and speaking in the most disparaging terms of actors, and customers are milling around the lobby and on the sidewalks outside.

Nasir-uddin had entered the service of the last prince of the Assassins only for the purpose of avenging himself on the Khalif, who had disparaged one of his works.

Pacceli cast a single disparaging look over his shoulder as he strode from the small Kitman dormer, and she could have cried as she heard his voice reporting his readiness.

To indulge somewhat, I repeat: for whoever allow themselves much of that indulgence, incur the risk of something worse than disparaging speeches- they are in peril of a commission de lunatico, and of having their property taken from them and given to their relations.

Many in the poorer section of our magnificent city had often made disparaging comments upon my being the namesake of mighty Sinbad the traveler.

The rads sourly disparaged the Grange Head Clipper, which featured mostly commodities prices, along with bickering among candidates in upcoming elections, to be held in a month, on Farsun Day.

Mohammed has been a favorite subject for comparison with Luther by the Catholics, but in truth, in no disparaging sense, the proclamation of Islam, with its monotheism, emphasis on faith and predestination, was very like the Reformation, and so were several later reforms within Mohammedanism, including two in the sixteenth century.

At the Sick Horse Depot Connor had, without good cause, made some disparaging remarks upon the charger ridden by Subadar Goordit Singh at the fight at Dihilbat Hill, which towers over the village of Hashin.

I perceived at my left hand a pretty girl of twelve or thirteen, with an old and ugly woman who was disparaging a pair of ear-rings which the girl had in her hands, and on which she had evidently set her heart: she looked sad at not being able to buy them.

It was an undoubted opportunity for him to put in some disparaging criticism of Comus, and Elaine sat alert in readiness to judge the critic and reserve judgment on the criticised.

A genuine son of thunder would have rejoiced in his deportment, and though a sneering, jealous and disparaging temper, Alfred Stevens could not conceal from himself the conviction that there was stuff in the young man which it needed nothing but trial and rough attrition to bring out.

With a disparaging snort, Micah revved up the chainsaw and turned away.

Watching discreetly as Clarissa prowled aggressively round the shop, disturbing the displays and disparaging her stock in a voice which Tania suspected was deliberately intended to carry, Tania felt her stomach muscles clench in a mixture of anger and dread.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent.

This document denounced the words of the traitorous dupes of the Usurper Kalvan, the so-called Archpriests Zothnes and Krastocles who had fraudulently disparaged the other True Gods except for the False Dralm, god of bilge-cleaners and latrine-diggers.