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/dɪspˈɛrɪdʒ/ Listen

verb

Disparage v. t. (past & past part. disparaged; pres. part. disparaging)

To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. (Obs.) "Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be."

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue. "Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious." "Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms."

Synonyms: To decry; depreciate; undervalue; underrate; cheapen; vilify; reproach; detract from; derogate from; degrade; debase. See Decry.

noun

Disparage n. Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. (Obs.) "Dissuaded her from such a disparage."

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... time until the glory of his deeds should of its own motion spread itself abroad, and further to send some one to relieve him even before the specified date. So jealous was he that he proceeded to disparage and abrogate all that he himself had effected with Caesar's aid: he was displeased at the great and general praise bestowed upon the latter (whereby his own exploits were being over-shadowed) and reproached the populace ...

— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio

... ultra-democratic side, he yet contrived to emerge unscathed from the schisms which were fatal to less dextrous trimmers. He was present at the siege of Toulon, and has striven in his "Memoires" to disparage Buonaparte's services and exalt his own. At the crisis of Thermidor the Convention intrusted him with the command of the "army of the interior," and the energy which he then displayed gained for him the same position in the equally ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... the great neglect and scorn of preaching ariseth from the practice of men who set up to decry and disparage religion; these, being zealous to promote infidelity and vice, learn a rote of buffoonery that serveth all occasions, and refutes the strongest arguments for piety and good manners. These have a set of ridicule calculated for all sermons and all ...

— Three Sermons, Three Prayer • Jonathan Swift

... China frequently lead far from model lives and are in no position to throw stones, for which reason, probably, the mere sight of a professional good man is worse than the proverbial red rag, and the tendency is strong, I own, to disparage him and all his works, while serenely forgetful of our ...

— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready

... Muscovite!—Satan counselled it—I was already influential and rich; but if I had become a Muscovite?—The foremost magnates would have sought my favour; even my brother gentlemen—even the mob, which is so ready to disparage those of its own number, is prone to forgive those happier men who serve the Muscovites! I knew this, and yet—I ...

— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

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