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Example sentences for "disparage"

Lexicographically close words:
disowned; disowning; disowns; dispair; dispaire; disparaged; disparagement; disparages; disparaging; disparagingly
  1. He was eminently truthful and honorable; but he had two qualities whose baneful influence would disparage the very best of gifts.

  2. You enumerate one by one all the ingredients, and you disparage the total.

  3. At all events, I am not going to disparage those who have brought back to my old age some of the pleasant memories of my youth, and satisfied me that even yet I have a heart for those social joys I once loved so dearly!

  4. I remember to have once, in talking with Green about Greek history, told him how I had heard Mr. Jowett, in discussing the ancient historians, disparage Herodotus and declare him unworthy to be placed near Thucydides.

  5. Heaven forbid that we should disparage the women of the Revolutionary period!

  6. It is, however, a very idle exercise, leading to no results when we set the qualities of one over against the qualities of another, and disparage by contrast and not by independent judgment.

  7. Did he think that it was easiest to disparage me in the senate?

  8. Or from the circumstances themselves, if we extol our own cause with praises, and disparage that of the opposite party by contemptuous allusions.

  9. But it is a shame of us even to appear to disparage this excellent lady for what was then such a usual infirmity.

  10. He may disparage reverence; but he is not himself irreverent.

  11. Men disparage not Antiquity, who prudently exalt new Enquiries, and make not them the Judges of Truth, who were but fellow Enquirers of it.

  12. One of the professors disliked and was inclined to disparage Davis while he was a cadet at West Point.

  13. Of course one must not unjustly disparage the military school.

  14. I compare that of the south because I am familiar with it, and one can with better manners disparage his own section than another.

  15. We are quite too apt unduly to disparage Judaism.

  16. And yet it would be an error to overlook or disparage his dealings with the future.

  17. Utter the thought, the feeling, the fancy, with what words you will, provided that they are native to the matter, and the matter will hold its own worth.

  18. It has been our aim to endeavour, in our translation, to give an echo, however feeble and imperfect, of the wild and airy freedom of the versification which distinguishes these spirited stanzas.

  19. Of late it has become almost a critical habit to disparage Longfellow; but no critic has pointed out another poet who has reflected with sympathy and understanding the feelings of so many widely different peoples.

  20. Well, there was an effort made to disparage any such enterprise as Miranda's, and any such aid thereto as the accused were charged with giving.

  21. In the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Articles 9 and 10, we find this language: "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

  22. Those who were predisposed to disparage the married state would throw contempt upon it as a mere concession to the flesh; they apparently even urged that, Christians being new creatures, their whole previous relationships were dissolved.

  23. Every one whose words or actions disparage Jesus proclaims himself to be under some other influence than that of the Spirit; every one who owns Jesus as Lord, serving Him and promoting His cause, is animated by the Spirit.

  24. Certainly one would with great reluctance disparage the integrity of those courageous persons who in many ages of the Church's history have gone without flinching to the stake.

  25. Well, my lords, beaten from these two positions, where did the experienced men retreat to under what flimsy pretext did they next undertake to disparage the poor negro race?

  26. I do not want to disparage them or their courage, but I cannot help questioning whether they ever had to withstand any serious attack of the enemy.

  27. That he did disparage Sir Alfred Milner is unfortunately certain.

  28. There is no need to disparage other agencies because we believe that it is the Gospel which is 'the power of God unto salvation.

  29. Other factors may powerfully aid the exorcising power of the word spoken by faith, and no wise man will disparage these, but they are powerless without faith and it is powerful without them.

  30. Disparage anything in yourself but your judgment, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, laughing.

  31. It is open to any writer who thinks fit so to do, to disparage the present age by comparing it with olden times.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disparage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; abrade; abstract; abuse; attack; bate; belittle; bespatter; blacken; blaspheme; blot; brand; censure; chill; condemn; contemn; curtail; debase; decrease; decry; deduct; defame; defile; degrade; deject; demean; demoralize; deprecate; depreciate; deride; despise; detract; diminish; disapprove; disclaim; discount; discourage; discredit; disdain; disesteem; disgrace; dishearten; disparage; disregard; disrespect; downgrade; drain; erode; expose; extract; flout; foul; hiss; impair; impeach; insult; knock; lessen; libel; look; malign; minimize; mock; pillory; play; purify; reduce; refine; remove; reprimand; retrench; ridicule; scoff; scorn; shave; shorten; slam; slander; slight; slur; smear; sneer; snort; soil; stain; stigmatize; subtract; taint; take; talk; tarnish; thin; underestimate; underrate; undervalue; vilify; weed; withdraw