(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.
Traduce
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.
(v. t.) To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.
(v. t.) To increase or distribute by propagation.
(v. t.) To draw away; to seduce.
(v. t.) To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.
(v. t.) To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
Example Sentences:
(1) Look further and you see people in faked approximations of designer logos – that they've been traduced doesn't detract from their meaning; it gives them a new story.
(2) The most powerful in the land had helped to perpetuate a media culture that allowed decent people to be traduced (there's a word your rarely hear in real life) "out of casual malice, for money, for spite, for sport.
(3) Yet, from his reaction, which was in the familiar non-apology apology of “I am sorry if I have caused offence, I should never have said such a thing in front of journalists”, it appears that he thinks it is he who has been in some way traduced, confounded by that dratted tendency of women not to get the joke.
(4) Frequently, this involves traducing the messenger as much as examining the message.
(5) It is depressing to hear union leaders deliberately misrepresent the government's reforms and traduce Michael Gove, whose respect for teaching and passion for improving the lot of the most disadvantaged children should be an inspiration to everyone involved in education.
(6) The results are traduced by different colours or by coloured ligns.
(7) Greece's determination in this World Cup was a thing to behold and, their reputation unfairly traduced, they brought a fair bit of quick-breaking flair to the table too.
(8) I really value the mateship that Peter O'Neill has shown to Australia on this.” The following day he said: “The co-operation that we are getting from PNG is a real act of mateship on their part and I’m really thrilled by it.” It’s a sort of Orwellian parallel reality: people held in dreadful conditions, two government conspiring to traduce their rights and suppress as much information as they can, and no one having the slightest clue about the future of people who really did flee persecution – while Abbott declares it’s been “a very successful visit”.
(9) I’m dismayed, frankly, because, with all the hard work that we put into trying to reform the fisheries industry and trying to get sustainable fishing back on the agenda, and trying to save fish stocks from their inevitable collapse they were heading towards, all that work is being traduced.” Richard Lochhead, the former Scottish fisheries minister who represents Moray, north-east Scotland, said: “Our fishermen will be gobsmacked by the irony of [Michael] Gove’s belated concerns for the fishing industry, given it was the Tories that negotiated such a poor deal for our fishermen in the first place while other nations got better deals.
(10) And the essence of this is that there must be a cheap, easy, independent and reliable arbitration process to force speedy prominent corrections on newspapers, and deliver ample compensation in a timely fashion to those who have been traduced.
(11) His young starting strike force of Ji Dong-won and Connor Wickham were subjected to the lion's share of the opprobrium in the wake of their side's reverse and will have been dismayed by the manner in which their work rate, character and intelligence were traduced.
(12) Struan Stevenson , a Tory MEP for Scotland from 1999 to 2014 and a former chair of the European parliament’s fisheries committee, said Michael Gove was guilty of “traducing” the EU and of “trotting out an emotional story as propaganda” to back the leave campaign.
(13) Not content with simply banning the film in its own country, the Iranian government complained to Unesco that it traduced Iran’s national dignity.
(14) For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain’s political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
(15) Visibly agitated by the idea that the current system of self-regulation can continue, he adds: "Many people say celebrities live by publicity and if they get the wrong sort they can't be entirely surprised, but what one is concerned by is when innocent people are traduced by the media.
(16) But instead he was suspended and the home secretary has spent two days basically traducing him and damning him."
(17) The Sun 's coverage has been hostile ever since, offering unqualified support for British troops while traducing their political masters.
(18) Like George Orwell, he had a deep love of England and the English, believing that our green and pleasant land was being traduced by a petty-minded army of bureaucrats.
(19) And it is about whether this house will be supine when its members phones are hacked, or about whether it will take action when the democratic right of MPs to do their job without illegal let, hindrance or interception has been traduced.
(20) There was nothing improper about meeting a demand by an employer to secure their leave.” Tim Dutton QC, for the SRA, said British troops involved in the Battle of Danny Boy had “their reputations traduced” at a press conference given by Day in 2008 at which the allegations were first made in public.