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Denigration

noun
1.
A belittling comment.  Synonym: belittling.
2.
An abusive attack on a person's character or good name.  Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, slander.
3.
The act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself).  Synonym: deprecation.






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"Denigration" Quotes from Famous Books



... fact that men of genius have often been prone to violent ebullitions of temper. He recalls the sad case of MILTON, who, while he was dictating his Areopagitica, threw an ink-horn at his daughter, "to the complete denigration of her habiliments," as he himself described it. Yet MILTON was a man of high character and replete with moral uplift. I remember that my old master, Professor Cawker of Aberdeen, once told me that as a child he was liable ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 13, 1917 • Various



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