| 单词 | denigration |
| 释义 | denigration (once / 151530 pages) n When you badmouth someone or talk scornfully about them (especially when they don't deserve it), that's denigration. If you practice denigration, shame on you! It's one thing to criticize people fairly, but when it's done in an unfair or unnecessarily hateful way, it's not criticism — it's denigration. The denigration of a public political figure is bad enough, but the denigration of ordinary people because of their religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or body size, for example, can even be illegal. Denigration is rooted in the Latin denigrare, meaning "to blacken." WORD FAMILYdenigration: denigrations+/denigrate: denigrated, denigrates, denigrating, denigration, denigratory USAGE EXAMPLESWe do not deserve the denigration delivered along with it. New York Times(Dec 24, 2016) However the public denigration of the work of the intelligence agencies would be more damaging, Hayden said. The Guardian(Dec 15, 2016) What we’re actually getting are wild claims that millions of people voted illegally, false assertions of a landslide, and denigration of the intelligence agencies. Seattle Times(Dec 12, 2016) 1n an abusive attack on a person's character or good name Syn|Hyper aspersion, calumny, defamation, slander attack strong criticism 2n a belittling comment Syn|Hyper belittling depreciation, derogation, disparagement a communication that belittles somebody or something 3n the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) Syn|Hyper deprecation disparagement, dispraise the act of speaking contemptuously of |
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