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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
airs, animadversion, arrogance, aspersion, attaint, attrition, backbiting, backstabbing, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, belittlement, bend sinister, black eye, black mark, blot, blur, brand, broad arrow, calumny, censure, champain, clannishness, cliquishness, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, curtailment, cut, cutting, decrease, decrement, defamation, denigration, depletion, deprecation, depreciation, derogation, despisal, despite, detraction, diminution, dip, discommendation, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disesteem, dishonor, dispraise, disrespect, disrespectfulness, disvaluation, exclusiveness, extraction, hauteur, impairment, impudence, imputation, insolence, insult, irreverence, lack of respect, lessening, mark of Cain, minimization, misestimation, misprision, misprizal, misprizing, onus, pillorying, point champain, reduction, reflection, remission, reprimand, reproach, retraction, retrenchment, ridicule, scandal, scorn, scornfulness, shortening, shrinkage, slander, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stricture, superciliousness, taint, tale, tarnish, toploftiness, truncation, underestimate, underestimation, underrating, underreckoning, undervaluation
Dictionary Results for disparagement:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
disparagement
    n 1: a communication that belittles somebody or something [syn:
         disparagement, depreciation, derogation]
    2: the act of speaking contemptuously of [syn: disparagement,
       dispraise]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disparagement \Dis*par"age*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. desparagement.]
   1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree;
      injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a
      lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.]
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            And thought that match a foul disparagement.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or
      dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value;
      dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; --
      commonly with to.
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            It ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is
            not the sun.                          --South.
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            Imitation is a disparagement and a degradation in a
            Christian minister.                   --I. Taylor.

   Syn: Indignity; derogation; detraction; reproach; dishonor;
        debasement; degradation; disgrace.
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