How to Use disparage in a Sentence

disparage

verb

• The article disparaged polo as a game for the wealthy.
• It's a mistake to disparage their achievements.
• Voters don't like political advertisements in which opponents disparage one another.
• The state promised not to disparage Mr. Loewen as well.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 2 June 2024
• Slabe said the upshot of the research was not to disparage hunters.
  — Christina Larson, ajc, 17 Feb. 2022
• The artist has opened up in the past about disparaging comments made about her image.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Trump has gone out of his way to disparage Jeff Sessions.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 29 Oct. 2019
• The fact is, the author used a single data point to disparage the union.
  — Naperville Sun, 1 June 2018
• One of them went so far as to disparage a white colleague’s young Black son.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2022
• To say that many of these films were made with persuasion in mind is not to disparage them.
  — Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• There’s no reason to disparage or hold that against the program.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2019
• For half a season, he was disparaged as not being a true point guard.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Cheryl agrees to write a piece in the school newspaper disparaging Sheriff Keller's work.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2018
• Some Texas Tech fans in Lubbock made a sign disparaging Gundy’s taste in restaurants.
  — Matt Jennings, ajc, 30 Sep. 2017
• His wife, Sarah, caught wind of some of the disparaging comments that were directed at the Bengals coach.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 10 Nov. 2024
• This is not to disparage the service of former Police Chief Nick Metz.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• Toward the end, Shilling added the aside disparaging the Sheriff’s Office.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 June 2023
• Faze Clan’s argues that Tenney breached his contract and disparaged Faze Clan over the course of the lawsuit.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
• That didn’t stop some people from disparaging the protest.
  — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• The trolls regularly disparaged Ryan and spread some fake news about the speaker.
  — Kevin Crowe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2018
• Both sides disparaging the other, and both sides beating up their own to make sure two of ours or two of theirs did not make it into the top two.
  — Amy Chance, sacbee, 11 June 2018
• Not to disparage the worth of big stars, but in many ways George was too deep and profound to become a big pop sensation.
  — Mike Barnes, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2021
• In the settlement, both Black and Cranley agreed not to disparage each other.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Witherspoon was disparaged by Meryl Streep, who was playing the mother of a man who abused his wife.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 15 June 2019
• When the Cowboys drafted Scott on April 29, many fans reacted online to the slow 40 time and disparaged the choice.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
• Now the subject of Larry Little’s disparaging tweets, Jason Frey, wants to move the battle to the courtroom.
  — Scott Travis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The wife just told me that during one of their battles her husband accused me and Travis of saying disparaging things about her.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• The wife just told me that during one of their battles, her husband accused me and Travis of saying disparaging things about her.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
• Shyne’s revelation comes more than a decade after the Belizean disparaged Lamar’s debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, in a post on social media.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 21 Nov. 2024
• Two candidates began buying billboard advertising more than a year before the race and at least one created a bogus website using an opponent’s name in order to disparage him.
  — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025