DISPARAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disparaging mean? 

• DISPARAGING (adjective)
  The adjective DISPARAGING has 1 sense:

1. expressive of low opinion

  Familiarity information: DISPARAGING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPARAGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressive of low opinion

Synonyms:

derogative; derogatory; disparaging

Context example:

disparaging remarks about the new house

Similar:

uncomplimentary (tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage)

 Context examples 

Don't tell me so—lest I should say something disparaging to your judgment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Such address and intelligence as I chance to possess, said Mr. Micawber, boastfully disparaging himself, with the old genteel air, will be devoted to my friend Heep's service.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found a great many foxes, disparaging whole vineyards of inaccessible grapes; but I found very few foxes whom I would have trusted within reach of a bunch.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With what a demure assumption of being immensely older and wiser than I, the fairy little woman said I was a silly boy; and then laughed so charmingly that I forgot the pain of being called by that disparaging name, in the pleasure of looking at her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)