disparagement in the PONS Dictionary

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In the late 18th century, lowland society often used "cohee" as a term of disparagement meant to refer to any white back-country settler who was under-educated, rough, and/or poor.
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Consider every medical practitioner as your natural enemy, and speak of him always with the utmost disparagement.
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The term has also been used as a disparagement towards individuals, especially ambassadors, who have attempted to influence the governments of foreign countries.
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Adding to the confusion are the various disparagements flying around the blogosphere about what does and doesn't constitute an electric vehicle.
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This action also required the dancers' bodies to be very close together and this closeness also attracted moral disparagement.
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Nor can we engage in any wholesale disparagements.
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By word or deed he never encouraged the disparagement of a woman.
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Especially in larger and more public buildings, the style is commonly subject to disparagement as ugly, inhuman, sterile, and elitist.
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One issue in the dispute was whether the disparagement clause had been present when the plaintiffs had made their order in 2008.
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The cafe's clientele were notoriously cruisy, leading many people over the years to compare the shop, with a sense of ironic disparagement, to its neighbors.
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