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UK
/dˈɛnɪɡɹˌeɪtɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈdɛnɪˌɡɹeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛnɪˌɡɹeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
How To Use denigrating In A Sentence
- Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
- While no one believes it, few would be willing to admit it for, among other reasons, fear of denigrating the service of reserve personnel.
- 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
- He would have us celebrate a political process close to home while denigrating the same process when it occurs a little further away.
- But denigrating weblogs because they're introspective is like declaring the bicycle pointless because we have oil tankers.
- Why should we be surprised today that he is again denigrating the troops? Sound Politics: McGavick on Kerry
- It didn't seem to occur to him that it might be possible to be a thorough and fair teacher without denigrating your pupil.
- ‘I'm only human,’ he whines, thereby denigrating the rest of his otherwise noble species.
- Denigrating what he described as a recurring desire by part of the country's elite over the centuries to make a sudden dash for change or even revolution, he presented himself as the tried and tested guarantor of stability. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- 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?