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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
denigrate .
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Examples
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June 18th, 2007 at 2: 18 pm denigrates is not the word you wanted. we need more categories — most dangerous, most embarrassing, most frivolous etc.
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You denigrate Al Gore the way Sarah Palin denigrates President Obama.
Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ 2010
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This sexist word denigrates toy mannequins with female characteristics, and must therefore be removed from the lexicon.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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And in honor of that, and because I found myself singing his song again, and it worked, again, clicked that old sense of fair-play and justice that is a key and solid plank of the American platform, I resolve to rid myself of a phrase that denigrates some of us, and myself as speaker most of all.
Vicky Shorr: My Woody Guthrie-Inspired Resolution Vicky Shorr 2012
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And in honor of that, and because I found myself singing his song again, and it worked, again, clicked that old sense of fair-play and justice that is a key and solid plank of the American platform, I resolve to rid myself of a phrase that denigrates some of us, and myself as speaker most of all.
Vicky Shorr: My Woody Guthrie-Inspired Resolution Vicky Shorr 2012
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This sexist word denigrates toy mannequins with female characteristics, and must therefore be removed from the lexicon.
Planned Changes to the Dictionary Dungeekin 2009
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And if we constantly have to look at women like Nancy Pelosi, Condoleezza Rice, Margaret Thatcher, Jean Kirkpatrick and say, "They got there, aren't they great women?" really kind of denigrates their talent.
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The debate about whether nudity in religious art inspires or denigrates could merely be a question of time and distance.
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The debate about whether nudity in religious art inspires or denigrates could merely be a question of time and distance.
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It is a joke that denigrates the value of knowledge.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The William F. Buckley Clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 2010
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