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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disparagement \Dis*par"age*ment\, noun [Cf. OF. desparagement.]
1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.]
And thought that match a foul disparagement. --Spenser.
2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to.
It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not the sun. --South.
Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a Christian minister. --I. Taylor.
Syn: Indignity; derogation; detraction; reproach; dishonor; debasement; degradation; disgrace.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disparagement
noun
1: a communication that belittles somebody or something [syn: {depreciation}, {derogation}]
2: the act of speaking contemptuously of [syn: {dispraise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "disparagement": airs, animadversion, arrogance, aspersion, attaint, attrition, backbiting, backstabbing, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, belittlement, bend sinister, black eye, black mark, blot, blur, brand, broad arrow, calumny, censure, champain, clannishness, cliquishness, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, curtailment, cut, cutting, decrease, decrement, defamation, denigration, depletion, deprecation, depreciation, derogation, despisal, despite, detraction, diminution, dip, discommendation, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disesteem, dishonor, dispraise, disrespect, disrespectfulness, disvaluation, exclusiveness, extraction, hauteur, impairment, impudence, imputation, insolence, insult, irreverence, lack of respect, lessening, mark of Cain, minimization, misestimation, misprision, misprizal, misprizing, onus, pillorying, point champain, reduction, reflection, remission, reprimand, reproach, retraction, retrenchment, ridicule, scandal, scorn, scornfulness, shortening, shrinkage, slander, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stricture, superciliousness, taint, tale, tarnish, toploftiness, truncation, underestimate, underestimation, underrating, underreckoning, undervaluation
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