What is "disparaged"

Usage examples of "disparaged".

But then, Father disparaged a system that rewarded the dili gent student with credit bonuses for something as intangible as academic excellence.

Like many men in town, he'd often laughed about Elfred's adulteries and disparaged his wife for her ignorance.

The Purple Green from Hook Mountain, however, disparaged the flesh of fishes.

The action was of course well warranted, and even long overdue, and not to be disparaged, since it is reminiscent of the sainted Catherine of Siena, who prayed that her own impeccable body might be splayed forever across the Pit, so that no more poor sinners would ever fall in.

True, Machado disparaged and despised his origins, and used his tide now only to achieve his goals, but to Joe Cicero his blood-lines were tainted and his aristocratic manners and affectations were an insult to all he, Cicero, believed in.

They dreamt in front of the Turners in the Tate, or disparaged the new acceptances at the Royal Academy.

Later on he had disparaged mine: he knew nothing of the finest period of Greek art.

And the bride whose pretty white dress her stepsister had so disparaged was making her way on the arm of her groom beneath an archway of roses into the marquee that Nell and her small staff had spent the whole of the previous day putting up and organising.

Sheila was the local gossip and busybody, an angular woman of forty-odd who ruled her own apparently perfect family and husband with a rod of iron, and who continually and loudly disparaged those who could not match her own exacting standards.

I slipped well into my cups, but came back to myself a goodly while after I'd already disparaged my table companion, a man I soon learned was a former Crusader and a powerful French count.