Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner to disparage or dishonor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.
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- adverb
Insultingly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disparaging manner
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Examples
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It shows up in 1957, on the back sleeve to a Mudhoney singer Mark Arm referred to "the streets of Seattle being paved with grunge" in my cover story, he was using the term disparagingly.
The Guardian World News Everett True 2011
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Garza, who clearly uses the term disparagingly, seems to know exactly what a crypto-libertarian is.
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Garza, who clearly uses the term disparagingly, seems to know exactly what a crypto-libertarian is.
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I mean to use the word disparagingly, but shall be sorry if it works offence.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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All of us bring our lifetime of experience - that which we oddly term disparagingly as "prejudice" - to any evidence presented to us.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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There is tremendous suspicion -- just like real-life attitudes toward wealthy land owners -- toward people who buy and sell land in SL -- they are called disparagingly "land barons".
Why not qualify the taking away of virtual objects as theft? 2008
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Over time, conservatives began to use this phrase disparagingly in reference to Clinton Administration officials, usually black, who were sympathetic to, and friendly with, leftist elements in South Africa (such as the Pan Africa Congress).
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The overriding aggravation, however, had been the Colombians, about whom, by 1903, even the temperate and very proper Hay could speak of as disparagingly nearly as did Roosevelt.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The overriding aggravation, however, had been the Colombians, about whom, by 1903, even the temperate and very proper Hay could speak of as disparagingly nearly as did Roosevelt.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Over time, conservatives began to use this phrase disparagingly in reference to Clinton Administration officials, usually black, who were sympathetic to, and friendly with, leftist elements in South Africa such as the Pan Africa Congress.
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