(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.
Scuttle
Definition:
(n.) A broad, shallow basket.
(n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
(v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
(n.) A quick pace; a short run.
(n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
(n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
(n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
(n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
(v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government was not aware of, nor is it interested in, what Secretary Kerry announced, which represents a desire to scuttle peace efforts by trying to reach an agreement with the Houthis apart from the government,” Mekhlafi wrote on his official Twitter page.
(2) They can be more direct when Giroud is on the pitch, and more creative when Griezmann scuttles around the attacking third.
(3) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(4) The subsequent collapse of AbbVie’s planned £34bn takeover of the FTSE 100 firm Shire – the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on inversions – showed that the “tax inversion risk, quite frankly, has become a reality”, he said.
(5) And never going anywhere near the goal, scuttling along the ground for a goal kick.
(6) The deal is the biggest to be scuttled by the White House’s clampdown on so-called tax inversions by US companies buying overseas to secure a lower tax rate.
(7) Republicans have thus far had little power to scuttle the agreement, reached last week between six world powers and Iran after nearly two years of negotiations and designed to restrict Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
(8) Boxer described the Republicans’ letter as “bizarre, inappropriate” and a “desperate ploy to scuttle a comprehensive agreement” that she said is “in the best interests of the United States, Israel and the world”.
(9) Over its 60 minutes, it scuttles from Africa to Haiti, where it accuses the Clintons of “disaster capitalism”, to Latin America, India and Russia.
(10) The tight-lipped Brady read out her oath of allegiance and scuttled off, leaving the money shot to Baroness Trumpington.
(11) This move would very likely scuttle the current six-month agreement, end negotiations toward a comprehensive settlement , and put us back on the path to war.
(12) If there is a deal, it will be very costly for Congress to scuttle.
(13) Ruined, lost, burnt, scuttled rigs were healing on the ocean floor and coming back.
(14) The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations.
(15) The Journal reported on Tuesday that not only did Israel spy on Americans negotiating with Iran, but they gave that information to Republicans in Congress, in an attempt to scuttle the deal.
(16) For instance, in his speech, Jeb called for strengthening Egypt, the sclerotic autocracy the United States propped up for decades and whose torture and repression birthed Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood (out from under whose robes al-Qaida scuttled into the world); its current president took power in a coup and is hardly known for his weakness on anything but human rights and press freedoms .
(17) The ball is played into a giant gap between Ferdinand and Jones, where Silva latches on to it and scuttles goalwards.
(18) The burst of violence was brief – maybe 15 seconds – just long enough for an adrenaline spike before the storyline jumped back to the present day, where a cockroach was scuttling along a countertop in a quiet, sunlit room.
(19) The referee, Neil Swarbrick, ignored the penalty appeals while Mourinho scuttled off to the manager's room to watch a rerun on television before returning pitchside to make his view clear to the fourth official.
(20) The UK recently implemented a new data retention regime which replaced a 2009 European law scuttled by the European court of justice on privacy grounds.