disparaging
noun1
disparagement
- I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways […] Men with a wintry sneer, and women with tart disparagings.1896, Thomas Hardy, Wessex Heights:
disparaging
adjUK /dɪsˈpæɹɪdʒɪŋ(ɡ)/
1
Insulting, ridiculing.
- The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.
- While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles some of the questions head on.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:
1 more example
- It was the latest instance of Trump using dehumanizing and disparaging rhetoric as he targets undocumented immigrants and vows mass deportations if he’s reelected.2024 October 7, Kate Sullivan, “Trump suggests undocumented immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’”, in CNN:
- Synonyms
- degrading, derogatory
- Antonyms
- laudatory
- Derived terms
- disparagingly, nondisparaging, undisparaging