Definition of denigration in English:
denigration
noun dɛnɪˈɡreɪʃ(ə)nˌdɛnəˈɡreɪʃ(ə)n
mass nounThe action of unfairly criticizing someone or something.
I witnessed the denigration of anyone who failed to toe the line
their constant denigration by a hostile media
Example sentencesExamples
- To radical feminists the abuse and denigration of women is a class issue.
- What is puzzling is why the reassertion of a traditional religion should arouse such hostility and denigration.
- McConnell is good news, but he is already being undermined by sustained denigration.
- Why are economists silent in the face of such denigration?
- Religious denigration is a source of violence.
- Judges must be free to make decisions, even unpopular ones, without the fear of political interference or public denigration.
- Fourier wanted to elevate the status of manual labor, to rescue it from a long-standing tradition of degradation and denigration.
- Sacrilege, sleaze and ethnic denigration become hysterically funny in their hands.
- Most important in this domain was the rejection and denigration individuals experienced in daily life.
- Reducing people and foreign cultures to mere symbols for denigration and dismissal is something the best of us strive to avoid.
Definition of denigration in US English:
denigration
nounˌdenəˈɡrāSH(ə)nˌdɛnəˈɡreɪʃ(ə)n
The action of unfairly criticizing someone or something.
I witnessed the denigration of anyone who failed to toe the line
their constant denigration by a hostile media
Example sentencesExamples
- Religious denigration is a source of violence.
- What is puzzling is why the reassertion of a traditional religion should arouse such hostility and denigration.
- Why are economists silent in the face of such denigration?
- Reducing people and foreign cultures to mere symbols for denigration and dismissal is something the best of us strive to avoid.
- Most important in this domain was the rejection and denigration individuals experienced in daily life.
- Judges must be free to make decisions, even unpopular ones, without the fear of political interference or public denigration.
- Sacrilege, sleaze and ethnic denigration become hysterically funny in their hands.
- McConnell is good news, but he is already being undermined by sustained denigration.
- Fourier wanted to elevate the status of manual labor, to rescue it from a long-standing tradition of degradation and denigration.
- To radical feminists the abuse and denigration of women is a class issue.