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.
• 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
• It wasn’t meant to denigrate Bjorn Borg or Paris or clay itself.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
• And to be clear, this isn’t to denigrate either Barkley or Nelson.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• None of this should be taken to denigrate Congress as a whole.
  — Christopher Miller, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024
• If that is the case, then don’t denigrate or too closely measure those skills.
  — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• The Fake News Is going all out in order to demean and denigrate!
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2017
• 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 Islam speech is a risky move for a president who has long denigrated the faith.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• Heavy sanctions and crackdowns on trade are prescribed to isolate and denigrate the regimes in Tehran and Beijing.
  — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• My favorite piece was a poster of a brick wall with graffiti that denigrates women through quotes from famous men through the ages.
  — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 14 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Trump won’t do anything for you, other than denigrate and demean you.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
• 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
• My intention isn’t to denigrate the sacrifice of those who fought in Vietnam.
  — Berny Belvedere, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024