How To Use Denigrate In A Sentence

  • This is not to denigrate their contribution - no doubt they are carrying out their assignments peerlessly.
  • BEGALA: When you see somebody who is their -- your number-three leader in the Senate go down in -- in a landslide, right, against a guy that I think he kind of denigrated in the campaign, that -- that tells you something. CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2006
  • Taoism, or Tao-kiao, was invented by the disciples of Lao-tze, but the lofty theories of this philosopher have denigrated to the grossest superstitions, alchemy, astrology, and a worship of a pantheon of idols, the highest of which is Yu-hwang Shang-ti; the chief of the Taoists resides at Lung-hu-shan (Kiang-si); most of the hierarchy are extremely ignorant. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • By the way - though I imagine you were merely trying to denigrate others and be oh so cute - the word is "mendacious" … not "mendoucheous", which isn't even phonetically correct. Patterico's Pontifications
  • While in the gay male culture, youth and beauty are apotheosized (granted, to an extreme), in the ‘lesbian community’ they are often resented and denigrated.
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  • Early Christians often denigrated traditional Jewish sacrificial ritual as inadequate and "fleshly" rather than spiritual, and argued that Jesus 'death had superseded it. The Betrayer's Gospel
  • People who write diaries are helpless solipsists who want nothing more than to denigrate others and elevate their own achievements, but who are too repressed and passive-aggressive to do so publicly.
  • To assert this is to denigrate the effectiveness of the police.
  • Our temporary political masters may denigrate his ideals and smash the organisations for which he worked, but men of his calibre will be honoured when his denigrators are mere footnotes in the sordid history of these times.
  • The amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the objects or beliefs of a particular religion.
  • Downtown tastemakers will quietly rave about something or someone until that music or art achieves a relative popularity - then it is denigrated as having ‘been better when I first saw them.’
  • It's a pride that comes across most potently in a beautifully staged scene where Stanley listens unseen while his sister-in-law denigrates what she calls his animalistic, subhuman behavior. Fore, right!
  • As a matter of fact, they kind of denigrate the whole idea of tankless heaters: Hot water « knitnut.net
  • 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. CNN Transcript May 18, 2007
  • In Venezuela, it is illegal to publish news accountsthat might be deemed to "denigrate" President Hugo Ch vez. Argentina Moves to Seize Newsprint Firm
  • Those who denigrate cinema, dismissing it for its mass appeal, refuse to see film as an art form.
  • America is a country that is high on fantasy -- that's why our political discussions denigrate so rapidly into accusations and one-word blandishments ... because it's convenient. Mike Ragogna: From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East Of Angel Town: Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti
  • Theatre claims that its show neither glorifies nor denigrates its subject, and does not reflect her political stance. Times, Sunday Times
  • He denigrated a foreign policy that delivers the rhetoric of freedom and not the reality of economic progress and true liberty.
  • I regard the continued campaign by some in the media to denigrate and besmirch the reputation of the Navy as quite outrageous.
  • And to think, feeble-minded utopians like myself have denigrated what should be a time of dour reflection.
  • Local Kentucky natives are deeply offended, claiming his work denigrates Appalachia and the South.
  • The latter are usually discriminated against by overt racist language which denigrates a person's colour and ethnic background.
  • I didn't intend to denigrate her achievements.
  • The denigrated genres are there in abundance: romance, novelettes, westerns, ‘hard-boiled’ and so on.
  • ‘The notion that the women's movement denigrates women who choose the traditional roles of wife and mother is arrant nonsense,’ columnist Molly Ivins writes emphatically.
  • I think that, given that McCain is whining about his military record being "denigrated", he should be called upon to have those records unsealed and released. McCain Campaign Accuses Obama Camp Of Coordinating With Webb To Attack McCain
  • But tables like this do not take account of the fact that some of our children are getting double what they have been predicted to achieve, and it upsets me because this denigrates their achievement.
  • Uppestdate: And for a bit of historical demythification--and in no sense to denigrate the significance of the battle for the Canadian Corps or RoC Canada: Archive 2007-04-01
  • None was ever so rewardingly admired or so keenly denigrated. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Denigrate men qua men, though, and you're hip and clever.
  • Mr. Stollery Liberal Senator agreed that there is a campaign in Canada to "denigrate" UN operations. Archive 2006-03-01
  • 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? Firedoglake » It’s Bill Clinton’s Fault
  • When cultural studies denigrates literature as elitist, this is hard to distinguish from a long national tradition of bourgeois philistinism.
  • Our culture simultaneously denigrates marriage and romanticizes it.
  • They insult their opponents, they denigrate their arguments and they offer few facts.
  • In 1868, he visited Brown's Flat near Yosemite's Merced River, where he encountered a group of Indians denigrated as Diggers whom he found dirty and unclean.
  • Don't browbeat, denigrate, insult or threaten the opposing team.
  • When it was published I found that my methods were denigrated by critics who were not sympathetic to my findings.
  • One is the use of a shared repudiation of romanticism to denigrate the Stuart cause.
  • Wine snobs denigrate aromatic, off-dry whites like this ripe, musky, hot-house grape-stashed muscat, with an intriguing hint of aniseed on the finish.
  • Attempts to denigrate his playing simply because of his popularity are misplaced but regrettably widespread.
  • It was normally considered bad manners to denigrate the dead, on the theory that they could not defend themselves. THE CURSE OF CHALION
  • In today's ‘inclusive’ society, it is okay to denigrate sections of the electorate as simpletons if they are still gripped by the power of faith.
  • 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"? Your Right Hand Thief
  • Nineteenth-century pietism stressed individual encounters with the divine and denigrated churchly, corporate forms of devotion as Catholic paganizations of the gospel.
  • Instead of listening to other political parties and to independent experts he consistently and viciously denigrated all opposition.
  • And once this hits the mainstream media – if it ever does – how long do you think before Armitage is vilified and denigrated for speaking out? Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’
  • Any discussion of the concept will be used to criticise and denigrate it.
  • It was normally considered bad manners to denigrate the dead, on the theory that they could not defend themselves. THE CURSE OF CHALION
  • Indeed, the term "ivory tower" is generally used by anti-intellectuals to denigrate and marginalize the achievements of the academic world.
  • Racialized discourse is a set of social practices that favours the ingroup and denigrates the out-group, categorizing, evaluating and differentiating between groups.
  • For that whole group of citizens whose appeals for assistance have been similarly and irresponsibly denigrated.
  • Rather, in this character test, Esau has denigrated the birthright and has proven himself unworthy of its privileges and obligations.
  • To assert this is to denigrate the effectiveness of the police.
  • 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. CNN Transcript May 24, 2009
  • It's a pride that comes across most potently in a beautifully staged scene where Stanley listens unseen while his sister-in-law denigrates what she calls his animalistic, subhuman behaviour. Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
  • He is forced to plead for the return of a man he conspired against, denigrated and expelled.
  • Boris Karloff, who played the monster first in Frankenstein, turned down a reprise of the role because he feared the monster would only be demeaned and denigrated.
  • I think it treats readers like idiots, insults their intelligence and denigrates the whole point of delivering news in the first place.
  • It could be the way to persevere, the way not to get noticed, or be cut down, or criticized, demised, demoted, denied, denigrated, decomposed and destroyed Singular vs. Plural
  • Looking back I think it's obvious they felt threatened and felt a need to denigrate my intellectual ability.
  • That's why sales tax is often denigrated as a regressive tax.
  • This strong attachment to a hard-won freedom can neither be denigrated, nor eradicated from consciousness.
  • She denigrated the piece as "uninformed speculation," and ridiculed what she characterized as the factual errors in the piece. The New York Times Puts Up Its Dukes
  • Time is also looking over the critic's shoulder when he or she denigrates the language of such writers.
  • Now, if the unknown James, Moses or Paul was to proclaim that greed is evil today in America he would likely hear his name denigrated on hate radio and hear something like "Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job. Thou Shall Covet
  • The amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the objects or beliefs of a particular religion.
  • The State of the Union wasn't "denigrated," as Roberts put it, and Obama didn't turn it into "a political pep rally. Michael J.W. Stickings: A Spineless Chief Justice: John Roberts and the Denigration of American Democracy
  • This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation.
  • All the mischaracterization by the media that Clark "denigrated" McCain's service just proves this. McCain Campaign Accuses Obama Camp Of Coordinating With Webb To Attack McCain
  • The amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the objects or beliefs of a particular religion.
  • This denigrated order is highly creative and productive, and women's closeness to each other persists within it.
  • It was normally considered bad manners to denigrate the dead, on the theory that they could not defend themselves. THE CURSE OF CHALION
  • Many people use examples from ethology (the study of animal behaviour) and in particular primatology (the study of primates) ‘not just to support the idea of animal rights but to denigrate human claims of uniqueness and special status’.
  • 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. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Speakers before the United States Chamber of Commerce rarely denigrate the businessman as an economic force.
  • The latter are usually discriminated against by overt racist language which denigrates a person's colour and ethnic background.
  • But sometimes a term acquires meaning by being denigrated, as Obama did with this one. InstaPunk
  • The new parliament [building] has been unfairly denigrated.
  • But while his essays are rightly complimented, his novels remain undervalued, sniped at by academics and denigrated by the reactionaries who see any attempt to knock America's heroes down to size as an act of treachery.
  • My figurative sisters were beaten, denigrated, unlistened to, and pushed to the edges. Fucking Friday: Bitch. | Mind on Fire
  • 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. Good Luck Sailor
  • The term "sellout" is used to denigrate black people who go places in society. 09/02/2004
  • Even with the rehabilitation of medieval art, works categorized by today's scholarship as "late medieval" were frequently denigrated.
  • Historical: blackface was used in minstrel shows and later in blackface sketches in more mainstream vaudeville to humorously denigrate African Americans. SNL's Fauxbama Blackface Thing
  • It was unkind to denigrate her achievement.
  • The academic father, Christopher (Stanley Townsend) constantly denigrates his blocked novelist wife, Beth (magnificent Kika Markham), who is determined, but with ditsy working methods: It's a marriage-breakdown detective novel. Raine's Tribal Instinct Breaks Down the Language Barriers
  • These critics claim he denigrates the ‘real’ moral values of Sri Lankan rural life.
  • Amid allegations by the opposition that Ma had "denigrated" the nation by meeting Aso as a "private citizen" rather than president, Aso remained diplomatic and said the low profile was at his own request. Taipei Times
  • It's just that we as critics have tended to stand apart and denigrate the content.
  • EasyJet 'denigrated' Ryanair in advert by implying they did not fly passengers to their required ... airline easyJet 'denigrated' rival Ryanair by suggesting the WN.com - Articles related to Samsung unveils new Galaxy S Android phone
  • I looked for things that debased freedom, promoted license, ridiculed responsibility, and denigrated man and God - but that was all of TV.
  • Excluded by racist societies, denied equal opportunity, and denigrated by their own Westernized elites, they have developed an exclusivist mind-set.
  • He dismissed the views of ‘a good many writers who have tartly denigrated the role of the family.’
  • At the same time, the opposing Whig Party made use of "OK" to denigrate Van Buren's political mentor Andrew Jackson.
  • I wouldn't for a moment wish to decry or denigrate the very real achievements made by disabled people.
  • And it actually follows what they've done for their media strategy from the very beginning, which is to kind of exalt and super serve the conservative media to the extent that they can, and to undermine and denigrate the mainstream media to the extent that they can. CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2006
  • Erm, flipping through dictionary well, "denigrated" IS a word, but I think you're right: I should have used "degenerated" instead. I Respectfully Disagree
  • If the alector in question dislikes an outcome that will likely occur if subjective factors are weighted correctly, then the subjective factors will be dismissed or denigrated because they cannot be accurately quantified. Soarer's Choice

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