Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame.
- transitive verb To disparage; belittle: synonym: disparage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To blacken; make black.
- Blackened; turned black.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
- transitive verb rare Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
criticise so as tobesmirch ;traduce ,disparage ordefame . - verb transitive To treat as
worthless ;belittle ,degrade ordisparage . - verb rare To
blacken .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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BTW, what the heck does my being black have to do with use of the word denigrate, when that word describes what I mean to say?
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I often do that ... but please quote where I "denigrate" Cao's (possible) naivete of the political establishment (which I actually consider to be a personal virtue, btw) and please quote where I call into question this guy's "sanity"?
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In Venezuela, it is illegal to publish news accountsthat might be deemed to "denigrate" President Hugo Ch vez.
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KURTZ: But Obama does this a lot, where he takes these swipes at cable television and the pundits, and you can tell that he likes to try to stake out a middle ground and kind of denigrate the press in the process, which is his right.
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KURTZ: But Obama does this a lot, where he takes these swipes at cable television and the pundits, and you can tell that he likes to try to stake out a middle ground and kind of denigrate the press in the process, which is his right.
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To that extent and to the extent that he thought the Khmer Rouge considered Phnom Penh "Sodom and Gomorrah" Sampson did indeed "denigrate" the food imperative of the evacuation.
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And, clearly, that's -- that's really a-- a way to kind of denigrate these cultures and these religions by justifying these really heinous acts in this way.
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As a matter of fact, they kind of denigrate the whole idea of tankless heaters:
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Mr. Stollery Liberal Senator agreed that there is a campaign in Canada to "denigrate" UN operations.
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Hundreds of people have been arrested under the same section of the law, which also makes it an offence to "denigrate" the 79-year - old dictator, under whose rule since 1980 one of the most prosperous economies in Africa has been brought to its knees.
mohitanand commented on the word denigrate
verb: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
Count Rumford denigrated the new theory of heat, demonstrating that it was wholly inadequate to explain the observations.
October 19, 2016