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  • adjective harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

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  • verb Present participle of denigrate.

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  • adjective (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

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Examples

  • Still, there are signs of discontent: More than a million women took to the streets over the weekend to protest what they called the denigrating treatment of women.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Still, there are signs of discontent: More than a million women took to the streets over the weekend to protest what they called the denigrating treatment of women.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • Still, there are signs of discontent: More than a million women took to the streets over the weekend to protest what they called the denigrating treatment of women.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • Still, there are signs of discontent: More than a million women took to the streets over the weekend to protest what they called the denigrating treatment of women.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Soldiers complained about what they called a denigrating order of having to lift their shits so that officers could be sure they were not smuggling banners into the hall.

    unknown title 2009

  • Probably at best a personal preference but, believe you're way off base in denigrating these calibers.

    Our Most Underrated Cartridge? 2008

  • He said Iraq was a mistake but aside from that not a word denigrating anyone.

    David Thielen: Michael Bennet Interview 2009

  • Why should we be surprised today that he is again denigrating the troops?

    Sound Politics: McGavick on Kerry 2006

  • It has provided an easy target for those who find advantage in denigrating the Commonwealth, whether they be ardent Europeanists in Britain or unweaned nationalists in Canada.

    The Commonwealth: White Man's Burden or Blind Man's Bluff? 1965

  • Jensen also has flooded Plale's district with automated phone calls denigrating Larson.

    Express Milwaukee 2010

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