denigration

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den·i·grate

(dĕn′ĭ-grāt′)

tr.v. den·i·grat·ed, den·i·grat·ing, den·i·grates

1. To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame: "Speakers before the United States Chamber of Commerce rarely denigrate the businessman as an economic force" (John Kenneth Galbraith).

2. To disparage; belittle: The movie critics denigrated the director's latest film. See Synonyms at disparage.

[Latin dēnigrāre, dēnigrāt-, to blacken, defame : dē-, de- + niger, nigr-, black; see nek^w-t- in Indo-European roots.]

den′i·gra′tion n.

den′i·gra′tor n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

denigration

literally, blackening; commonly, the sullying or defaming of a person, organization, or institution. — denigrator, n.

denigration

disparagement

noun defamation, belittling, vilification, besmirching, obloquy, aspersion, detraction the denigration of minorities in this country

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

denigration

noun

1. The expression of injurious, malicious statements about someone:

aspersion, calumniation, calumny, character assassination, defamation, detraction, scandal, slander, traducement, vilification.

Law: libel.

2. The act or an instance of belittling:

belittlement, deprecation, depreciation, derogation, detraction, disparagement, minimization.

Translations

تَشْويه السُّمْعَه

očerněnípomluvení

nedrakningtilsværtning

Verachtung

dénigrement

mannorîsspjöll

nedrakking sverting

očierňovanie

iftirakötüleme

毁誉

denigration

[ˌdenɪˈgreɪʃən] N → denigración f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

denigration

[ˌdɛnɪˈgreɪʃ^ən] n [person] → dénigrement m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

denigration

n → Verunglimpfung f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

denigrate

(ˈdenigreit) verb

to attack the reputation etc of. I'm not trying to denigrate her achievement.

ˌdeniˈgration noun

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Noun	1.	denigration - a belittling comment belittling depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something
	2.	denigration - an abusive attack on a person's character or good name aspersion, calumny, defamation, slander attack - strong criticism; "he published an unexpected attack on my work"
	3.	denigration - the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) deprecation dispraise - the act of speaking contemptuously of