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Example sentences for: disparaging
How can you use “disparaging” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
USAT reefers, and the other papers run inside, Major League Baseball's decision that John Rocker must undergo psychological testing before it decides whether or not to discipline him for his recent disparaging remarks about gays and minorities.
The delightful and certainly disparaging canard also occurred to me, but I had already decided to limit my quest to personal epithets.
Mr Rivers has emphasized to me that the word was not then used in a disparaging way, but more as a kind of professional in-joke, with about the same force as the now universal punter client, customer, part of the verbal comaraderie of a lively band of young workers.
[He] was often critical or cutting in his remarks when things weren't just right--either about the house or my clothes, for example, which left lots of room for disparaging remarks."
In Cornwall the word emmet is used with exactly the same meaning and is likewise labelled mildly disparaging by the OED , which gives two citations, both of which include grockle , from 1975 and 1984.
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