Sample Sentences fordenigrate (auto-selected)
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The trick is to offer constructive criticism without denigrating their efforts.denigrating = treating as bad or unimportant
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The rapes are part of the general denigration and humiliation of Central Americans in Mexico, (source)denigration = the act of saying someone or something is not good or is unimportant
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Not to denigrate your police labs, Lieutenant, but mine might prove a shade more sophisticated.† (source)
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I did not denigrate it.† (source)
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"No," said Jess, "I mean, maybe it's just a gesture that's supposed to denigrate whatever Harold does."† (source)
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Climbers who snidely denigrate this as the Yak Route, I decided, had obviously never been through the Khumbu Icefall.† (source)
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Nor is Burgess using Alex to denigrate or mock Jesus.† (source)
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A video denigrating Mohammed had appeared on an Iranian web service and had quickly spread, sparking rioting in Pakistan and Bangladesh.† (source)
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While she was looking at herself in the mirror, excited by her self-denigration, she had a fantasy of Tomas seating her on the toilet in her bowler hat and watching her void her bowels.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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"She traded me in for a better man," he would say to Mammachi, and she would flinch as though he had denigrated her instead of himself.† (source)
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I shall not denigrate what we have endured at the Urgals' hands, but neither shall I ignore potential allies when we are so greatly outnumbered by the Empire.† (source)
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That's self-denigrating, isn't it?† (source)
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Settembrini, as a man who formed opinions, would surely have denounced this exhibition as a denigration of humanity, and with honest, classical irony would have castigated the misuse of technology that made such cynical presentations possible—or so Hans Castorp thought, and whispered as much to his cousin.† (source)
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She said, "Our task is to help move them towards mastery of the language at school, in its oral and written form, but to do that in a way where they are not devalued, or where they feel denigrated in any way by virtue of their cultural and linguistic differences."† (source)
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I'm not denigrating my skills.† (source)
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From the start the old man had talked to Blomkvist about so many members of his family in a contemptuous and denigrating manner.† (source)
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