denigration

Examples of denigrated

denigrated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
People's "pathological" skills can be accepted as adaptive strengths instead of denigrated as immature remnants of early childhood.
Socrates, for one, praised the reflective life of the mind (his injunction: "know thyself ") and denigrated the body (and its emotions) as an interference.
Liberal aesthetic theory in the 1950s denigrated the eye in favour of the word.
Villagers rarely asked questions, and when they did, these questions were often dismissed or the questioner denigrated.
It is clear that while earlier generations of historians have denigrated past achievements, this intellectual smugness can no longer be sustained.
And, in some contexts, they feel respected and affirmed when others address them in their language and denigrated when others impose their own linguistic preferences.
Given these constraints, their achievements can be seen to have been remarkable, and, rather than denigrated, should be applauded.
The trades and professions are to be denigrated.
The denigrated "individualism" of young people seems to be about their hesitancy in linking their subjective identities and lifestyles to a single national project.
The doubleness of the position of the laboring-class woman, simultaneously eroticized and denigrated, compounds the already considerable ambiguities faced by a woman writing in disguise as a man.
Significantly, he also denigrated, at least by implication, the other component of the classical art - the value of a stable background framework, such as agreed subject classifications.
Although that is not the topic of this article, it nonetheless supports our point that gender slurs were issued by those who dismissed or denigrated women's politicization.
Whereas sound symbolism seems to hold a significant place for the authors, linguistic theory and what it offers to the study of the development of grammar is denigrated.
Servitude, devotion, and attachment were on the one hand elevated to the most perfect of virtues and on the other denigrated as the basest of conditions.
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