Disparagement

I know that under the Government Slight Disparagement act of 2008, I could face up to 15 years in prison without trial for even daring to criticise a serving Government Minister's tie, let alone daring to question any legislation the government may feel like enacting on any particular day.

Archive 2009-03-01 David Hadley 2009

I know that under the Government Slight Disparagement act of 2008, I could face up to 15 years in prison without trial for even daring to criticise a serving Government Minister's tie, let alone daring to question any legislation the government may feel like enacting on any particular day.

Anti-Terror Legislation David Hadley 2009

Disparagement is thinking too meanly of anyone because we hate him.

The Ethics 2007

Mr. Hirsch alleges that his portrayal in the popular documentary was tantamount to "Negligence, Unauthorized Use of Likeness, Disparagement to Reputation, and Defamation of Character, Fraudulent Inducement, False Misrepresentation, Damage to Business Reputation."

Spurlock's Super Size Lawsuit; Which Critics Beat the Odds? 2005

Disparagement of persons not present, on the other hand, is usually quite acceptable, offering a basis of preferential solidarity for those in the encounter.

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

"Disparagement of Morag," which is sometimes recited as a companion piece to the present.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

Terms of Disparagement, by Marie Gladys Hayden, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, pt. iii, pp. 194 ff.

Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation Henry Louis 1921

Then said Mr Dare-not-lye, “Tis true, they neither have the Pilgrim’s Weed, nor the Pilgrim’s Courage; they go not uprightly, but all awry with their feet; one Shoe goes inward, another outward, and their Hosen out behind; there a Rag, and there a Rent, to the Disparagement of their Lord.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 600-699 1909

Discussion of British debts — Disparagement of the treaty of peace — Reform of the county courts.

The Writings of James Madison 1901

Be not hasty to believe flying Reports to the Disparagement of any

George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890