(v. t.) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
(v. t.) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.
Example Sentences:
(1) What are New York values?” he asked the crowd, alluding to Cruz’s vague denigration of those “liberal” values in a January debate.
(2) What if the ad vilified African Americans, or Jews, or any other group for which public denigration is less permissible?
(3) 'Fashionable theories and permissive claptrap set the scene for a society in which old values of discipline and restraint were denigrated.'
(4) And this in the face of the most concerted campaign of denigration any Labour leader has ever endured in such a short space of time.
(5) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(6) This week we see that the ramifications of corporate prostitution continue to hurt her as juniors (looking at you, Harry Crane) use the knowledge of what happened to both blackmail the company and denigrate her.
(7) Such beliefs denigrate certain aspects of female sexuality.
(8) Their role was to challenge, even denigrate, the views of "insiders", to demand value for money, to impose performance management, to root out endemic "failure" and to insist on what they saw as customer satisfaction.
(9) Nobody should denigrate the achievements of those who received their results in the past few days.
(10) Michael Meacher MP Labour, Oldham West and Royton • How dare Norman Warner and Jack O'Sullivan denigrate the NHS in such strident terms?
(11) "Michael thinks it is important not to denigrate the patriotism, honour and courage demonstrated by ordinary British soldiers in the first world war."
(12) Childcare remains resolutely low-status, and Slaughter thinks this is partly due to the attitude, "'well, it's women's work', and since we denigrate women, we denigrate caregiving."
(13) Barnaby Joyce defends halal after Coalition MPs express concern Read more “It is against the law to vilify Jews and it is not politically correct to denigrate blacks or gays.
(14) James Cooke, author of one of the most popular English surgical textbooks of the seventeenth century, in an amusing and previously unnoted reference, adds to this denigration and helps to explain why nasal reconstruction became a subject of satire in England.
(15) In his piece, Gove criticises historians and TV programmes that denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a "misbegotten shambles".
(16) A significant proportion of the comments denigrated and dismissed her.
(17) They reached this conclusion after finding he allowed payment to influence his actions in parliamentary proceedings, failed to declare his interests on appropriate occasions, failed to recognise that his actions were not in accordance with his expressed views on acceptable behaviour, repeatedly denigrated fellow MPs both individually and collectively, and used racially offensive language.
(18) But even as the city attempted to clean up the mess, another group of at least four San Francisco police officers was exchanging text messages that mocked the community response to the scandal, used racist slurs and denigrated LGBT people.
(19) Criticism of Allen's video followed almost immediately after its release on Tuesday , with several bloggers and numerous tweeters calling out Hard Out Here's "denigration of black female bodies".
(20) He is denigrating and he is talking down our democracy,” she said.
Derogate
Definition:
(v. t.) To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.
(v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.
(v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.
(v. i.) To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.
(n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed increase in self-derogation over a 1-year period in persons with initially positive self-attitudes is discussed with regard to the literature on developmental disturbances in self-image; differential volunerability to self-devaluing experiences; and the relationship between change in, and level of, self-acceptance.
(2) Results indicate that health care presented within the context of not having a choice is derogated and that choice and patient mix combine to influence intentions to seek care.
(3) Results indicated an effect of sex identification; the male blunderer was derogated most by male subjects (n = 34) and the female most by female subjects (n = 34).
(4) However, whether or not suicidal behaviors are related to self-derogating feelings in the more remote past can be seen as a function of a sex-social-class-mode of suicidal response interaction.
(5) Inspectors found that senior staff at Durham Free School had allowed a culture to develop where it was acceptable for racist words and sexually derogative and homophobic terms to be used.
(6) Detaining non-suspects for up to seven days, virtually incommunicado and without effective review at the time, removing the right to silence on penalty of imprisonment, and criminalising any disclosure of detention, is excessive and disproportionate in view of existing powers, the level of terrorist threat, and the absence of any declared public emergency justifying derogation from protected human rights.
(7) Some derogations could attenuate the severity of these dispositions--as jurisprudence had taken progresses of Epileptology and therapeutics into consideration.
(8) The duty of care owed by the commonwealth to asylum seekers and refugees is non-derogable – it cannot be suspended or transferred.
(9) Self-derogators were judged to be submissive, elicited dominating reactions, and selected more topics with negative content.
(10) A particularly interesting interpretation of this phenomenon, consistent with a large body of clinical and experimental literature, ascribes it to self-derogation processes in low-PA persons and self-enhancement processes in high-PA persons.
(11) But Caoilfhionn Gallagher, representing the media with Mike Dodd, legal editor of the Press Association, said not knowing the names would be “a major derogation from the open justice principle” – and that the public had a right to know who, and what, was going on in public courts.
(12) We predicted that authoritarian actors would engage in defensive attribution, and authoritarian observers would derogate the other, to a greater extent than egalitarian perceivers.
(13) The commission should expand the EU-wide ban to cover all uses of neonicotinoids on all crops, and end the self-service approach to derogations.
(14) 10c derogation intent When the EU adopted the climate and energy package in December 2008, the 10c derogation was included as an exception to the rule that from 2013 onwards, all allowances for power companies should be auctioned rather than granted for free.
(15) Many Tories were demanding she went for a temporary derogation of human rights laws.
(16) Attitudes toward victims of AIDS were conceptualized as serving three possible functions: a value-expressive function (e.g., stigmatization), an ego-defensive function (e.g., homosexual prejudice), or a knowledge function (e.g., victim derogation).
(17) The report adds: "As they incorporate derogations from the principle of open justice, superinjunctions and anonymised injunctions can only be granted when they are strictly necessary.
(18) Experiments 1 and 2 showed that self-derogations connote submissiveness but are generally judged to be neutral in affiliation.
(19) The European parliament’s industry committee last month approved a rule change allowing Greece to join the scheme, the ‘10c derogation’ of the emissions trading system (ETS).
(20) Article 15 of the human rights convention allows a state to withdraw temporarily or derogate in legal terms from some of its rights in times of national emergency which threaten the life of the nation, to allow the use of measures that have to be "strictly required".