How To Use Disparagingly In A Sentence
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Starting her own record label with the money she's gotten in a divorce settlement from her ex-husband Abe, Anna is disparagingly called a ‘housewife’ by her wormy former brother-in-law Ben.
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She looked at the _riata_ and sniffed it disparagingly; she pawed some pebbles that were near me tentatively with her small hoof; she started back with a Robinson-Crusoe-like horror of my footprints in the wet gully, but my actual personal presence she ignored.
Short Stories of Various Types
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Today I shall try to be on the alert not to speak an untruth, not to gossip or tattletale, and not to speak disparagingly about another person.
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She looked almost demure, she thought disparagingly, glaring at her reflection as if her dilemma were all the mirror's fault.
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The word was apparently coined in the 1790s by David's students, wittily combining rocaille and barocco, to refer disparagingly to the taste fashionable under Louis XV.

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This prohibition forbids speaking or acting in a disparagingly way toward a fellow Jew or non-Jew.
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these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'
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One video showed Bushell looking disparagingly at another house and saying how filthy it was and how much of a midden it was, a phrase he used repeatedly.
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The demise of the smart police tunic was not welcomed in favour of what became known disparagingly as the ‘Matalan’ fleece jacket.
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That's why I am frequently called on to referee the All-Female Poetry Slams that are held around New England as fund-raisers for what A.J. Liebling disparagingly referred to as “the quarterlies”, the high-brow, low-revenue publications that pluck drops of verse from the torrent of poetry that is showered on them, providing them with a brief, mayfly-length existence, before they are recycled at one of the region's many picturesque do-it-yourself town dumps.
The Sylvia Plath Foreclosure Sale
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It's a term that can be used self-referentially with pride or disparagingly about others.
Times, Sunday Times
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Without speaking disparagingly of the city of Ottawa, we all know that the government of our country have expended a considerable amount of money in beautifying the city, the driveway and other things having been constructed by reason of it being the Capital of our noble Dominion.
Good Citizenship
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Monks promoted the cult of their own saints and could write disparagingly of others.
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She looked almost demure, she thought disparagingly, glaring at her reflection as if her dilemma were all the mirror's fault.
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The term ‘airport novel’ is now used rather disparagingly, many claiming the genre is a front for smut, sleaze and shop-soiled erotica.
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Miss Willerton, in fact, bears more than a passing resemblance to the dreaded penwomen O'Connor would write so disparagingly about in later years.
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No one spoke disparagingly of her father in her hearing.