disparagement

Examples of disparaged

disparaged

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

Not only did the regime and its supporters (illogically) castigate the protesters for politicising sport, they disparaged their corporeality.
Such research is valuable and will, undoubtedly, give status to languages which have all too often been disparaged.
Some commentators have disparaged the work of ethics committees as "super social work" and not philosophical ethics at all.
Its corollary was that claims that were unable to meet these strict criteria of validity were discounted or disparaged as 'unfounded'.
For a considerable period of time, musicians and music educators disparaged the gramophone.
On the other were the skeptics who sometimes openly disparaged science and at other times more cautiously expressed reservations about the scientific enterprise.
This potential took time to be realised, and the machine was initially disparaged and laughed at by the musical community at large.
I omit to praise that which no one unless devoid of healthy and human feeling has disparaged.
Identities, beliefs and other types of 'meaning' are frequently disparaged as irrelevancies, irretrievable, or inevitably tainted by observer-dependent effects.
They disparaged the notion that popular resistance might spring from decades of social inequality and military dictatorship.
However, the value of these achievements is being systematically ignored, if not disparaged.
For early eighteenth-century ears, minor harmony would appear to have been a less haunted presence, not necessarily disparaged and certainly not relegated to the margins of instrumental practice.
Slang was vulgar, and the accent was disparaged as a flat, monotonous whine.
Rural life was increasingly seen as something to be respected and recorded: to be understood, even treasured, in all its richness without being condemned or disparaged.
This preference, however, is often taken as historically right as well, and any historiographical research not willing to accept the "minor annoyances" is disparaged as uninteresting, if not downright nonsense.
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