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- noun Plural form of
disparagement .
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Examples
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Despite a Constitutional declaration using the term “no law,” restrictions on speech from mimicked materials to food labels, profanity to securities solicitations, disparagements to high-decibel statements, political messages to sexually themed expression, and pharmaceutical warnings to incitements have been accepted by our society as reasonable regulations of the rights secured by the First Amendment.
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They'll agree with the compliments and they'll object to the disparagements, and that is to be expected.
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By now we know the drill: several drawn-out posts based on false premises or illogic, or both, most of them incorporating fact-free disparagements of the intellectual abilities of others … generally at least a couple of links to articles or videos that show something other than what the fake dr represented them as showing … then the tediously transparent self-fellating that convinces no one of the intellectual gifts described but never displayed.
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To make amends for his damaging disparagements of business conventions in Las Vegas, Obama went there shortly after announcing the deficit commission and announced a $1.5 billion program for housing aid targeted at a few states, including Nevada.
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Despite a Constitutional declaration using the term “no law,” restrictions on speech from mimicked materials to food labels, profanity to securities solicitations, disparagements to high-decibel statements, political messages to sexually themed expression, and pharmaceutical warnings to incitements have been accepted by our society as reasonable regulations of the rights secured by the First Amendment.
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In fact, they were a formidable party (in spite of Flashman's occasional disparagements) with no lack of experience of irregular warfare, and the standard of their weapon handling and marksmanship appears to have been high.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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These disparagements are used as behavior regulators in military settings.
CHILD SOLDIERS…by Therese Quinn, Erica Meiners, Bill Ayers 2008
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These disparagements are used as behavior regulators in military settings.
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Ugly, ugly, ugly voiced disparagements are the order of the day:
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Ugly, ugly, ugly voiced disparagements are the order of the day:
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