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disparagement
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What does disparagement mean?
noun
- The act of disparaging, of belittling.
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But Cato's marriage, unbecoming his dignity and age, is a considerable disparagement, in this respect, to his character.
North Dormer took the Mountain for granted, and implied its disparagement by an intonation rather than by explicit criticism.
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To dream of wire, denotes that you will make frequent but short journeys which will be to your disparagement.
And in good will we strove so to forward their affairs that gain accrued to them, while justice suffered no disparagement.
Contrariwise, "disparagement" may be defined as "hatred, in so far as it induces a man to think too meanly of a hated object."