How To Use Disparagement In A Sentence

  • The hidden progressivist agenda on this issue lies in the disparagement of verbal learning.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • His reputation is one of postseason failure, though many will tell you that's another unearned disparagement.
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  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • But he doesn't care too much about the disparagement.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Now it’s connation is a nonspecific disparagement. “In the Tank”
  • Cor. 11:21 By way of self-disparagement I say this, Supposedly we ourselves were weak.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Piett thought he was out of earshot, but the disparagement was still heard by Bossk, a towering reptilian humanoid and skilled predator.
  • 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?
  • 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)
  • 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 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 print, with its blatant talk of victories, its crass disparagement of the enemy, bore no relation to what he experienced. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • 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)
  • 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.

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