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单词 disparagingly
释义

disparaging

adjective

dis·​par·​ag·​ing di-ˈsper-i-jiŋ How to pronounce disparaging (audio)
-ˈspa-ri-
: meant to belittle the value or importance of someone or something : serving or intended to disparage someone or something
a disparaging term/word
disparaging comments from ordinarily sane and sympathetic critics … Isaiah Berlin
Legally, I also can't say anything about the company that could be construed as disparaging. Chuck Klosterman
disparagingly adverb
a term often used disparagingly
People in my field … have a tendency to take lightly and often disparagingly the efforts of workers in the so-called social sciences. Lewis Thomas

Synonyms

  • belittling
  • contemptuous
  • decrying
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • denigrative
  • denigratory
  • deprecatory
  • depreciative
  • depreciatory
  • derisory
  • derogative
  • derogatory
  • detractive
  • disdainful
  • pejorative
  • scornful
  • slighting
  • uncomplimentary
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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1596, in the meaning defined above

disparagingly

adverb

as in disapprovingly

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • disapprovingly
  • negatively
  • unfavorably
  • cynically
  • reproachfully
  • critically
  • reprovingly
  • deprecatingly
  • guardedly
  • warily
  • apprehensively
  • uneasily
  • incredulously
  • anxiously
  • uncomfortably
  • charily
  • quizzically
  • captiously
  • hesitantly
  • hesitatingly
  • dubiously
  • questioningly
  • doubtfully
  • skeptically
  • unbelievingly
  • suspiciously
  • askance
  • reproachingly
  • distrustfully
  • doubtingly
  • askant
  • mistrustfully
  • sideways

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • positively
  • approvingly
  • favorably
  • trustingly
  • confidently
  • trustfully
  • uncritically
  • unquestioningly
  • sanguinely
  • credulously
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