Words similar to disparaging
Example sentences for: disparaging
How can you use “disparaging” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
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.
The OED2e labels grockle as dialect and slang, of uncertain origin , and mildly disparaging , as well as associating it especially with southwest England.
He defends privacy without disparaging the gains of the past 30 years.