How To Use Disparage In A Sentence

Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
Matcham's theatres were widely disparaged by architects.
I am not in any way saying this to be antagonistic, nor to disparage anyone's beliefs; that isn't my way, or my purpose in starting this.
While the word is not always used in disparagement, it is never used as a compliment except as a possible term of affection among close friends just as a close Alabama friend of mine might exclaim to this Alabama boy, "Bubba, you ole redneck, how are you? Good Friday in Oaxaca
He says that the words complained of were meant and calculated to disparage the Claimant in his profession and business and also that they imputed to him the criminal offences of harassment stalking and theft.

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Four years later, the heads of that department charged Blower with "verbal abuse, false statements, disparagement, and harassment of faculty, " according to a news report in Science.
Perhaps discomforted by these challenges, contemporary critics disparaged the painting.
French - Canadian fur trappers and Sioux disparaged such country as " bad lands.
Fully documenting any issues in writing is an obvious best practice, but it's important that the communications be free of terminology that can be taken as an accusation or disparagement.
In spite of the ongoing disparagement, the yellow metal has continued to shed its ‘barbarous’ reputation, taking out fresh 18-year highs last week.
For the last six years, he has found himself reviled and disparaged by most of America, with every transgression in and out of the ring adding to the image of an unpleasant human being.
In fronter the crew an 'all," he disparaged them with a disrespectful grin. Ship Of Destiny
Alvin Plantinga defines "fideism" as "the exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone, accompanied by a consequent disparagement of reason and utilized especially in the pursuit of philosophical or religious truth. Sandwalk
Under colonialism and apartheid domination African countries suffered the same political, economic, social and cultural domination, which led to the depersonalisation of sections of communities, falsification of their history, disparagement and negation of their moral and social values and cultural institutions. Returning to the roots of local activism
Too often, our politicians disparage Europe and impute to it evils - like unemployment - that are really the result of domestic insufficiencies.
People travel on false passports and do all the things he disparages because of the plight they are in.
None was delighted by the question, because it required judging the past by the standards of today — a fallacy disparaged as "presentism" by social scientists. 1491
Piett thought he was out of earshot, but the disparagement was still heard by Bossk, a towering reptilian humanoid and skilled predator.
Then he disparaged my writing for being too illiterate for some but too literate for others.
You disparage a woman's driving or mock her way of problem-solving.
So the artfully crafted notion of a ‘public domain’ ringing our jewelled isles shouldn't be too easily disparaged.
Then the campaign of criticism and disparagement of a good man, Mr Keelty, continued into the Tuesday.
Where will the board draw the line between concerted activity and an employer's legitimate non-disparagement policy?
| Reply | Permalink why do you have a handwring-fest every time Obama hits back at the Clintons, but are silent when Clinton disparages Obama? of course this was meant to draw attention to the comments themselves as much as the messenger, a retired General supporting Obama. of course the counterpunch was a bit over the top, but that's to get it (and thus the original comment) recognition, and it certainly isn't more over the top than either the original statement or any of a half dozen Clinton/Clintonista comments over the past few days. Obama-Supporting Retired General Compares Bill Clinton To Joe McCarthy
In fact, if you are a "birther" - a term coined by the mainstream press to disparage those who doubt Obama's eligibility to hold office based on his citizenship - even so-called conservative icons like Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck consider you a nut. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Observe, It is no disparagement for those who have power to be condescending, and sometimes even to beseech, where, in strictness of right, they might command; so does Paul here, though an apostle: he entreats where he might enjoin, he argues from love rather than authority, which doubtless must carry engaging influence with it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity.
Its theme is regulatory hubris, and Friedman disparages "economism," which might be described as a belief that wise economists can guide government policies to correct market failures. Social Science and Public Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
You could take this as vindicating Pollan's view that industrial manipulation of food almost always makes it worse — except that this is just the kind of epidemiologic evidence his book disparages. Finding Meaning in Each Mouthful
So in disparaging motherhood you disparage women, full stop. It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother
But when you're living with a person all your life, you, unknowingly, tend to disparage his worth.
How well does Mr McIntyre know the so-called Third World which he so insultingly disparages?
None the less, when reason showed them that a thing ought to be done, not withstanding the Aruspices should be adverse, they did it anyway: but then they turned these [aruspices] with conditions and in such a manner so adeptly, that it should not appear they were doing so with disparagement to their Religion: which method was used by Consul Discourses
This is not to disparage the editor and her magazine, it's just that I can't ever see a day when such a read would hold even a scrap of appeal.
Honestly, I don't see the film as being successfully neorealistic, but to call it a simple docudrama would disparage both the film and the director.
He spoke with scorn of the "rights of women," their demand for the suffrage, and the _cohue_ of female authors, expressing himself in terms of ridiculous disparagement of writers so eminent as George Sand and George Eliot; but he strenuously advocated the claim of women to a recognised medical education. Thomas Carlyle
Neither did they establish their claims to gentility at the expense of their tailors, for as yet those offenders against the pockets of society and the tranquility of all aspiring young gentlemen were unknown in New Amsterdam; every good housewife made the clothes of her husband and family, and even the goede vrouw of Van Twiller himself thought it no disparagement to cut out her husband's linsey-woolsey galligaskins. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Not to disparage teh Shakespeer guy or anybuddy in his era, but it seems to me that if u wanted to hurt teh other guy u would bite *his* thumb, not ur own. Hey, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity.
How well does Mr McIntyre know the so-called Third World which he so insultingly disparages?
You shouldn't have your name disparaged nor associated with the THREE BUSTS taken in the top 37 of last year's draft by the self proclaimed Rhodes Scholar. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
I don't at all disparage Marisleysis' motives or her genuine affection for Elian.
Four years later, the heads of that department charged Blower with "verbal abuse, false statements, disparagement, and harassment of faculty, " according to a news report in Science.
Worse still, many of them take the opportunity to disparage Norway into the bargain.
The routine aim is to disparage and stigmatize activities or sentiments that displease policymakers in Washington.
So the artfully crafted notion of a ‘public domain’ ringing our jewelled isles shouldn't be too easily disparaged.
To be sure, these admirable achievements did not always meet with disparagement: Victor Hugo had written in one of his famous poems: "Le geste auguste du semeur" (The sower's noble attitude). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
“As generally under - stood,” Aristotle said in the Ethics, “the boaster is a man who pretends to creditable qualities that he does not possess, or possesses in a lesser degree than he makes out, while conversely the self-depreciator dis - claims or disparages good qualities that he does possess. IRONY
To all those people who've disparaged my Diet Coke habit over the years: screw off!
These entrepreneurs don't view their businesses as strict dot-coms: many disparage the term.
You have got to where the word homely preserves its true signification, and is no longer a term of disparagement, but expressive of a cardinal virtue. Winter Sunshine
The anti-intellectualism that is popular in political and social discourse in this country when referring to the "effete European culture" that puts a high premium on learning and our instant gratification mentality that stems from our over-commercialized society discourages and disparages the kind of hard, persistent, and concentrated work that produces good learning, not just test taking. Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Dumbing Down the English Regents
The print, with its blatant talk of victories, its crass disparagement of the enemy, bore no relation to what he experienced. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Halacha is not to be used to demean or embarrass others, and when one behaves in this way, says the Ramban, it disparages the name of G-d and detracts from the true purpose of halacha. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D.: Message To Religious Extremists: Listen To Joseph!
The actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity.
The view of many other scientists that faith and science (or reason) are incompatible is ignored or disparaged. Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
But what we are here concerned to point out is the terrible way in which this treatment of the Cross disparages it and minimizes its importance in the history of redemption.
However some may call it a fashionable accomplishment and entertainment, it is not for kings, O Lemuel! it is not for kings, to allow themselves that liberty; it is a disparagement to their dignity, and profanes their crown, by confusing the head that wears it; that which for the time unmans them does for the time unking them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
That is not in any way to disparage his two competitors.
Yet, between 1970 and 1998 the RAF was able to impose a reign of terror on that country completely divorced from the reality of their small size, limited public support, and popular disparagement.
But he doesn't care too much about the disparagement.
Such "talking" would never be looked upon with disparagement if it were not allowed to stop "doing"; which it never would, if assemblies knew and acknowledged that talking and discussion are their proper business, while _doing_, as the result of discussion, is the task not of a miscellaneous body, but of individuals specially trained to it; that the fit office of an assembly is to see that those individuals are honestly and intelligently chosen, and to interfere no further with them, except by unlimited latitude of suggestion and criticism, and by applying or withholding the final seal of national assent. Considerations on Representative Government
That's not to disparage the Fringe, says Holmes.
Teratology as a guide to the solution of morphological problems has been especially disparaged in contrast with organogeny, but unfairly so. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
‘Government is frequently disparaged as an inefficient bureaucratic maze serving the interests of officeholders and time-servers rather than of the public,’ he wrote.
Perhaps discomforted by these challenges, contemporary critics disparaged the painting.
Shall not intentionally expose the student to embarrassment or disparagement.
As my colleague Dan Primack reported on Friday, Bartz's Yahoo employment contract has a non-disparagement clause.
On October 11, four days after the operation began, Bush told a press conference, “It would be a useful function for the United Nations to take over the so-called nation-building,” an activity Bush had disparaged during the campaign. The Great Experiment
The king continues to disparage and asperse all sober and judicious reflections upon that royal paper, by charging upon them the unjust and reproachful character of sinistrous interpretations.
They are a misallied and disparaged branch of the House of Nimrod. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
I would say persist and never minimize or disparage yourself or your abilities.
His reputation is one of postseason failure, though many will tell you that's another unearned disparagement.
They are a misallied and disparaged branch of the house of Nimrod. Paras. 60-83
I would like revert from the French disparagement duly justified, of course back to intellectual property rights. Piracy in China: Trent Reznor 1, Howard French 0
When US steel companies pursue anti-dumping remedies, the free-trade orthodoxy disparages them as backward protectionists, blocking the future for poorer countries.
Prescriptive grammarians routinely disparage innovative usages as introducing ambiguities.
A swift response from the editor himself was printed below the letter, saying: ‘We are surprised that our correspondent disparages lentils as an article of diet.’
The noted garden historian disparages landscape architects for pragmatically lacking a theoretical basis for design.
The notion that children's taste in toys might somehow be genetically determined has long been disparaged by psychologists, pooh-poohed as unscientific, sexist or both.
However, efficacy studies and theoretical speculations should not be disparaged or dismissed.
Husbands complain about domestic trifles or elope with younger mistresses, male colleagues disparage women by making rude remarks about their figure, and the female body, on the whole, is either coveted or rejected.
So here's a list, by region, of some new varieties - and some old species that were once disparaged as weeds - on the cutting edge of low-maintenance lawn care.
Its theme is regulatory hubris, and Friedman disparages "economism," which might be described as a belief that wise economists can... EconLog: July 2009 Archives
But by suggesting that a blogger can be bought off with a quickie from a trio of porn stars, the episode could be seen as commentary on the notion that people who write without answering to an editor are perhaps less reliable in certain cases than the good old mainstream media that people are so quick to disparage. The golden age of TV « BuzzMachine
‘Government is frequently disparaged as an inefficient bureaucratic maze serving the interests of officeholders and time-servers rather than of the public,’ he wrote.
As a child these were the teachers who cast large shadows over my progress, or lack of it, and whose constant put-downs and disparagements made school life more miserable than it should have been.
She neither disparages beauty nor celebrates its virtues; instead, she represents beauty as something earthy and embodied.
It is not in our nature to disparage the city we love or belittle the real successes that are made by our opponents as they did to us over the last three years.
I agree absolutely, that Ritter et al were quite scurrilously disparaged (I remember that Ritter's sanity was called into question at one point).
The only people who use the word "hoodlum" these days are media pundits & talk radio hosts, like Beck or Limbaugh, to disparage young black/latino males. School Board Chairwoman In Trouble For Telling It Like It Is | Manolith
They unwittingly borrow arguments of mainly dead, well-bred, futilitarian Orientialist scholars, like Goldziher, Juynboll, Schacht, and their incarnations (‘higher critics’ as Arberry calls them in disparagement).
Ironically, many minorities also lead the efforts to abolish affirmative action under the belief that their educational achievements are depreciated, disparaged and seen as less valuable.
Some critics have disparaged Hogan's emphasis on the love story between the two main characters.
She has used every opportunity to disparage the caracter of her opponent, and claimed to be unfairly attacked on policy and fact. Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
Even today, his Roman churches of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane are as sensational as they are beautifully realised, while the laziest guidebooks still disparage his demanding talent. Borromini: the first architect
I invoke Jimmy Carter and disparage Patrick Henry's 1775 war cry in the context of antimilitarism and Iraq and _two days later_ Jimmy Carter himself is on NPR doing the exact same thing. UR 2Good 2B 4Gotten
She disparaged her student's efforts
Her face was indistinct in the twilight, but if its expression corresponded with the inflection of her voice, her nostrils were inflated and her lips were curled in disparagement. With the Procession
The poet did not nail his colors with a cheer to the mast of any of the great questions of the day, ethical or social, and therefore suffered the disparagements of those intelligent friends of his who have been taught to consider a well-defined rigidity of conviction and maintenance, in the midst of all these phenomena of our universe, telluric and uranological, as the test of everything valuable in human character and morals. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
The hidden progressivist agenda on this issue lies in the disparagement of verbal learning.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, when I was helping at the foundation of the Irish Literary Society in London, we were violently disparaged by newspapers and private persons for having praised Oliver Cromwell and the Danes, while we dispraised Thomas Davis. Later Articles and Reviews
I don't disparage the fare, mother, that thee gives us at the meetinghouse, that is, when thee does give us any, but A Day of Fate
Womanism is feminism's vulgate, found everywhere, from the humorous disparagement of men by stand-up comedians and novelists through to more savage criticisms of men in the context of fears of social disintegration.
Those are the scenes when people in the story, who have disparaged our heroine, get ridiculed, put down and generally put in their place by her.
Art Museums and the Public Trust is squarely on the side of sober stewardship, as distinguished from the venturous, sometimes dicey exploits of the two repeatedly disparaged colleagues.
As long ago as 1959, my bebopper friends and I disparaged Oscar Peterson, but I'm not sure you've exactly captured our reasons. Come Fly With Me
Madurese are now 10 percent of the Sambas population and tend to disparage Dayaks for Christian and animist ways that Islam considers unclean, like keeping dogs and eating pork. Rule Of The Headhunters
Don't disparage her attempts to become an actress.
The comments were not meant to disparage any company's products," stated the publisher.
The actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity.
Four years later, the heads of that department charged Blower with "verbal abuse, false statements, disparagement, and harassment of faculty, " according to a news report in Science.
For all his complicated love for Edwin, his weary disparagement of Angelica, they knew Robert Jellico was trustworthy enough. SPLITTING
Common law provides a remedy for injurious falsehoods, actions that are sometimes known as business disparagement lawsuits.
The print, with its blatant talk of victories, its crass disparagement of the enemy, bore no relation to what he experienced. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The defendant argued that the jury was improperly instructed on the standard of fault required for commercial disparagement aka injurious falsehood or trade libel, since that tort requires actual malice and the jury was instructed that negligence was sufficient. ISO damages for false advertising and commercial disparagement
Yet Tamang women can remarry and are not disparaged over divorce, can retain their own lineal and clan identities even after marriage, and are not expected to live fulltime in their marital homes for many years.
Now it’s connation is a nonspecific disparagement. “In the Tank”
Far be it from me to disparage your cognitive commorancy choices. Archive 2007-11-01
Cor. 11:21 By way of self-disparagement I say this, Supposedly we ourselves were weak.

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