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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abusive, aweless, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disadvantageous, discourteous, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, judgmental, libelous, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, uncomplimentary, underrating, undervaluing, vilifying, vituperative

Dictionary Results for disparaging:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

disparaging
    adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments";
           "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn:
           derogative, derogatory, disparaging]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Disparage \Dis*par"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Disparaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Disparaging.] [OF.
   desparagier, F. d['e]parager, to marry unequally; pref. des-
   (L. dis-) + F. parage extraction, lineage, from L. par equal,
   peer. See Peer.]
   1. To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal
      marriage. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

            Alas! that any of my nation
            Should ever so foul disparaged be.    --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. 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.
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            Those forbidding appearances which sometimes
            disparage the actions of men sincerely pious. --Bp.
                                                  Atterbury.
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            Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
                                                  --Milton.

   Syn: To decry; depreciate; undervalue; underrate; cheapen;
        vilify; reproach; detract from; derogate from; degrade;
        debase. See Decry.
        [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

disparaging \disparaging\ adj.
   expressing a low opinion of; same as derogatory; as,
   disparaging remarks about the new house.

   Syn: belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory,
        derogative, derogatory, detractive, detracting,
        slighting, pejorative, denigratory.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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