How to Use denigrate in a Sentence

denigrate

verb

• Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher.
• No one is trying to denigrate the importance of a good education. We all know that it is crucial for success.
• Some commenters decided that was an opportune time to denigrate the sisters’ looks.
  — Asia Moore, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• That’s why this national women’s march was heavily denigrated on the official Facebook page for the event.
  — Tharwa Boulifi, Teen Vogue, 19 Mar. 2018
• This isn’t even about denigrating sports; there’s no reason to get defensive at the simple assertion that sports is disfigured in the same way as everything else and could start to evolve.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 27 Feb. 2018
• There is nothing amusing about the denigrating remarks President Trump makes about members of the press and other politicians at his rallies.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• But in trying to denigrate his critics, Nunes certainly appears to be adopting some of the president's more controversial tactics.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
• The term poor white trash serves the same purpose—to dismiss, to deny, to denigrate.
  — Christian Livermore, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2022
• In the past, the phrase has been used to denigrate people from other countries.
  — Melanie Eversley, Fortune, 24 July 2019
• The object of the show is not to denigrate either party.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 28 May 2020
• Not to denigrate the loss of life, but this might give us some hope from something terrible.
  — Jonathan Watts and Niko Kommenda, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
• The word that was removed is an ethnic slur that has been used to denigrate Black people in South Africa.
  — James Briggs and Jack Guy, CNN, 17 June 2021
• That’s not to denigrate the others, which are wonderful in their own way.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
• This is by no means at attempt to denigrate the tremendous role our seaports play in U.S. trade.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• The cheerleader had been denigrated for so long in teen movies.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2024
• She’s taunted with an ethnic slur used to denigrate Italians who are allied against Britain in the war.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022
• Just a couple of years ago, egirl was a slur used to denigrate women streaming games on Twitch, to write them off as PG-13 camgirls-for-gamers.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 2 June 2021
• But Trump is wrong, and failure to appreciate this point denigrates the sacrifices of Normandy and of all the years since.
  — Jeffrey A. Engel, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
• And one of the more common ways to denigrate an opponent in such an argument is to play the purity card.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• No one has been able to visit Logan for the better part of a week, for very good reason, but the old man’s first order of business is to denigrate his son.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• That is in no way to denigrate Kendrick Nunn, just to recognize the reality of more upside with Tyler.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• For a long time now the status of women has been denigrated by all governments.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• The accounts were set up to encourage support of the regime and denigrate the opposition.
  — David Smagalla, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
• The headline was eventually changed, and Walker said the wine writer didn’t aim to denigrate his work.
  — Kevin Begos, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
• In one sordid chain of events, Gantz’s top strategist unburdened himself to a rabbi and, in the process, denigrated his client.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2020
• At the heart of this denigrating effect is flawed memory, Protzko and Schooler say.
  — Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2019
• Which suggests that the wine industry will denigrate them — or just ignore them — at its own peril.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2021
• These changes laid the groundwork for our current era, in which the private sector and the market are celebrated while the public and the state are denigrated.
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2023
• For all that McConnell and his ilk denigrate state and local aid as bailouts to blue states, four of the states mentioned above are politically blood-red.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• The band was part of a wave of earnest pop-rock that crossed genres, alternately praised as deft and open-hearted, or denigrated by critics as toothless soft-rock.
  — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024