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dis·par·ag·ing [dɪˈspærɪʤɪŋ, Am -per-] ADJ

dis·par·age [dɪˈspærɪʤ, Am -per-] VB trans

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Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

disparaging remark
spöttische Bemerkung
to make disparaging remarks about sb
sich acc abschätzig über jdn äußern

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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He summarily dismisses his two remaining students from the school, disparaging their work.
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Alternatively put, the new terms gradually acquire the same disparaging connotations as the old terms.
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The recipient may receive disparaging remarks concerning their ethnicity, sexuality, religion, intelligence, political ideology, sense of ethics, or sense of aesthetics.
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Not every critic was disparaging of the film, however.
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Name slurs can also involve an insulting or disparaging innuendo, rather than being a direct derogatory remark.
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To his friends, she was an inexplicable choice of wife, and the subject of some rather disparaging and unkind remarks.
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As soon as white men around him heard the comment they immediately attacked him for disparaging the character of a white woman.
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Commenting on the debates, the leaders of three minor parties who were not invited to participate were disparaging.
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As a consequence, research indicates, disparaging views of adoptive families exist, along with doubts concerning the strength of their family bonds.
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The same obliviousness from male judges towards the treatment of their female colleagues exists when it comes to disparaging remarks toward the women judges.
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