Word Frequency
denigrate (ˈdɛnɪˌɡreɪt
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Definitions
verb
- tr to belittle or disparage the character of; defame
- a rare word for blacken
Derived Forms
ˌdeniˈgration nounˈdeniˌgrator noun
Word Origin
C16: from Latin dēnigrāre to make very black, defame, from nigrāre to blacken, from niger blackTranslations for 'denigrate'
- British English: denigrate If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them. VERBThe amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the beliefs of a particular religion.
- Brazilian Portuguese: denegrir
- Chinese: 诋毁诋詆毁
- European Spanish: denigrar
- French: dénigrer
- German: verunglimpfen
- Italian: denigrare
- Japanese: 中傷する
- Korean: ~을 헐뜯다
- Portuguese: denegrir
- Spanish: denigrar
Example Sentences Including 'denigrate'
But unlike his erstwhile teammate Ralf Schumacher, he is not inclined to denigrate his former team publicly.Times, Sunday Times (2005)
It was unfair to denigrate Sergeant Vince Phillips who died on patrol, the commander told Justice Salmon.New Zealand Herald (2003)
MY disappointment and dismay at correspondents who denigrate Lleyton Hewitt.The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2005)
Stephen Twigg, the junior Education Minister, called on people to celebrate not denigrate the results.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
The current system already does that in design technology subjects, which denigrate both their academic and vocational components.Spiked (2004)
The habit of doing for others was too deeply rooted to change in her old age, but she was the first to denigrate her domesticity.Three Kinds of Kissing - Scottish Short Stories
`We, who are living off the Victorians "moral and physical capital, can hardly afford to denigrate them.English Conservatism since the Restoration: An introduction and anthology
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