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UK
/dˌɛnɪɡɹˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- a belittling comment
- the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
How To Use denigration In A Sentence
- This denigration can take the form of devaluating the characters' intelligence through infantilization.
- And I watched as a nation drank deep from that very dark elixir of American nationalism ... the flip side of nationalism is always racism, it's about self-exaltation and the denigration of the other.
- So let us gather together from time to time to engage in vituperation and denigration and righteous indignation and exasperation so that each of us might amuse and rile as best we can. Think Progress » Ann Coulter to MoveOn: “How About Helping Out?”
- The essence of the denigration of women is our definition as sex object.
- Our cultural peaks and troughs have followed the celebration or denigration of nature.
- The bill's critics decried it as a denigration of traditional marriage.
- But today we are at a crossroads, because the institutions that have sold us the crosses we wear around our necks are the most overt in the denigration of women and thus humanity. We Never Make Mistakes
- By disempowerment, the tribunal referred to the denigration and destruction of Maori autonomy, or self-government.
- This process has included verbal denigration as well as cruel and unusual treatment of those who are traditionally perceived as outsiders.
- There was all this vitriol and denigration of the people involved.
