Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who disparages or dishonors; one who belittles, vilifies, or disgraces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
disparages .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
Etymologies
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Examples
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I believe I can make an educated guess at to the ID of the mystery disparager.
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Lest we not confuse the clown of today with the P.T. Barnum of 2000, there was John McCain, former prisoner of war, former disparager of the politics of personal destruction, former critic of the tactics and ads of the Chambliss campaign of 2002, speaking out forcefully for that very individual.
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Ironically, you can find the same fault in Lewis's greatest contemporary disparager - Philip Pullman.
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Ironically, you can find the same fault in Lewis's greatest contemporary disparager - Philip Pullman.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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For example, in regard to the biblical command to keep kosher (clean), when somebody notes that Jews eat ham or bacon, the cooked flesh of an animal that is not to be used for food according to the Old Testament, the question from the disparager may be how that ham or bacon is to be made kosher.
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Argentina, which has an enormous area of agricultural lands and enormous herds of livestock, the second best nourished country in Latin America, with almost 3,000 calories and almost 80 grams of protein per person per day, as was recently recognized by an institution that is an enemy and disparager of the Cuban revolution?
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When she had reached a point where to decry her success was to proclaim her disparager envious or absurd, she would be satisfied; until then, she considered herself no more successful than the failures about her who yet found room to laugh at her.
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Readers of Arthurian romance are all familiar with Sir Kay; they will find that in Chretien, the seneschal, in addition to his undeniable qualities of bravery and frankness, has less pleasing traits; he is foolhardy, tactless, mean, and a disparager of others 'merit.
Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914
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Bracciolini, and not Tacitus, a disparager of persons in high places.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Bracciolini, and not Tacitus, a disparager of persons in high places.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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