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/dɪspˈɛrɪdʒ/ Listen

verb

Disparage v. t. (past & past part. disparaged; pres. part. disparaging)

To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. (Obs.) "Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be."

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue. "Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious." "Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms."

Synonyms: To decry; depreciate; undervalue; underrate; cheapen; vilify; reproach; detract from; derogate from; degrade; debase. See Decry.

noun

Disparage n. Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. (Obs.) "Dissuaded her from such a disparage."

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"Disparage" Quotes from Famous Books

... "present a united front and be able to speak and act with the authority of an undivided nation." To continue the Home Rule discussion must involve the House in acute controversy in regard to "domestic differences whose importance to ourselves no one in any quarter of the House is disposed to disparage ...

— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn

... time about how much good it does for one lone sophomore to try and run the faculty?" It was the coach talking again, but the gravely nodding mandarin-like heads of Howard and Ray accompanied him. "Mind you, I don't mean to disparage you personally, but you must admit that you can't hardly expect to boss everything. Just what good 'll it do to go on shouting for Frazer? Quite aside from the question of whether he is likely to get fired ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... p. 110. Mr. Plimsoll added: "I don't wish to disparage the rich, but I think it may be reasonably doubted whether these qualities are so fully developed in them; for, notwithstanding that not a few of them are not unacquainted with the claims, reasonable or unreasonable, of poor relatives, ...

— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

... whole of this period with a calm straightforwardness that we are not accustomed to in his writings. There is no doubt, I think, of all our critic's books, that his work on Browning is the least Chestertonian, which is not in any way to disparage it, but rather to state that the book might have been written by any biographer who knew Browning's works and had the sense to see that his characteristics were such that many of his critics were unfair to him. Chesterton will never allow for an instant ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke

... the consuls not to read Caesar's letters but conceal the facts for a very long time until the glory of his deeds should of its own motion spread itself abroad, and further to send some one to relieve him even before the specified date. So jealous was he that he proceeded to disparage and abrogate all that he himself had effected with Caesar's aid: he was displeased at the great and general praise bestowed upon the latter (whereby his own exploits were being over-shadowed) and reproached the populace for paying little heed to himself and going frantic over Caesar. Especially was ...

— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio

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