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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disparage \Dis*par"age\ (?; 48), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Disparaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disparaging}.] [OF. desparagier, F. d['e]parager, to marry unequally; pref. des- (L. dis-) + F. parage extraction, lineage, from L. par equal, peer. See {Peer}.]
1. To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. [Obs.]
Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be. --Chaucer.
2. To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious. --Bp. Atterbury.
Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms. --Milton.
Syn: To decry; depreciate; undervalue; underrate; cheapen; vilify; reproach; detract from; derogate from; degrade; debase. See {Decry}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
disparaging \disparaging\ adjective expressing a low opinion of; same as {derogatory}; as, disparaging remarks about the new house.
Syn: belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting, pejorative, denigratory. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disparaging
adjective: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: {derogative}, {derogatory}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "disparaging": abusive, aweless, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disadvantageous, discourteous, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, judgmental, libelous, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, uncomplimentary, underrating, undervaluing, vilifying, vituperative
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