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UK
/dˌɛnɪɡɹˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- a belittling comment
- the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
How To Use denigration In A Sentence
- When finally he is convinced that Macduff is sincere, however, he retracts his self-denigration and explains why he has lied in this peculiar fashion.
- Bellow has a strong sense of morality, so his works demonstrate a strong moral sense, ethical optimism and rejection of the denigration of human life.
- To confront our inequality, therefore, we must confront both society's denigration of us in these terms and our own self- denigration as people.
- When lock is achieved, the digital detector is switched out of circuit to avoid noise denigration in the analogue circuit.
- The complaint is against his ideology - a concern that last week's adulation and denigration chose to ignore.
- And I watched as a nation drank deep from that very dark elixir of American nationalism ... the flip side of nationalism is always racism, it's about self-exaltation and the denigration of the other.
- All this works for the alienator, because the more time the alienator has access to the children, the more deeply entrenched will become the PAS campaign of denigration. Judges and the Development of Parental Alienation Syndrome
- If you listen to the talk shows, you will hear your fellow citizens arguing passionately pro and con with advocacy and denigration, accusation and defense.
- His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy.
- The unbruised adolescent ego likes its angst to be clear-cut and attributable to the denigrations of an insouciant universe.