denigratory

ADJECTIVE
  1. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
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How To Use denigratory In A Sentence

  • The airline had also made misleading and denigratory comparisons with competitors. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had to explain that as a mentor of young adult fiction, I see a lot of genre fiction that fits the genre okay but isn't worth developing further, which is more denigratory than I like to be in an introductory session.
  • “On the various induction courses magistrates undergo, of which diversity training plays a major role, there is a constant stream of questioning, often denigratory, of everything the police stand for, their actions and their attitudes.” I haven’t had a dream in a long time « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • He carried on telling us that he could not think of a word in his language which would translate ‘racism’ in the way we use it in our language, although, clearly, there were ways of referring to other people or nations in a denigratory way.
  • Yet backwardness might not be tantamount to barbarism, or even ‘backward’ in any denigratory way.
  • On the various induction courses magistrates undergo, of which diversity training plays a major role, there is a constant stream of questioning, often denigratory, of everything the police stand for, their actions and their attitudes. I haven’t had a dream in a long time « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Inflammatory, denigratory statements are made in court which have nothing to do with the hard evidence, but are selectively seized on by the media. Lobbyists can do good but they need to be on a register | letters
  • The conscious or unconscious repetition of myths, clichés and fantasies surrounding the stereotypes of the Jew, hostile, denigratory and debasing, are still frequently represented both in the high-minded world of literature and in popular culture. Anglo-Jewish Writers: Twentieth Century.
  • It also alleges that Blazer "discriminated against Capt Burrell and certain members of the Concacaf through his contemptuous and denigratory words since all the persons who were singled out were of a specific race". Caribbean association heads call for Fifa to investigate Chuck Blazer
  • Because of her haughty deportment, she was given a denigratory name, “huldah,” meaning “weasel” (even the Aramaic translation of her name — karkushta — sounds ugly) (BT Megillah 14b). Huldah, the Prophet: Midrash and Aggadah.
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