Antonyms for disparaging

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dih-spar-i-jing

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈspær ɪ dʒɪŋ

Definition of disparaging

Origin : early 14c., "degrade socially," from Old French desparagier (Modern French déparager) "reduce in rank, degrade, devalue, depreciate," originally "to marry unequally," and thus by extension the disgrace or dishonor involved in this, from des- "away" (see dis-) + parage "rank, lineage" (see peer (n.)). Sense of "belittle" first recorded 1530s. Related: Disparaged; disparaging; disparagingly.

adj derogative

Example sentences :

But these disparaging utterances were not without a secondary purpose.
Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga

Then it often has a diminutive or disparaging signification.
Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

Even to hear any one disparaging the appearance of Jess's son is to me a pain.
Extract from : « A Window in Thrums » by J. M. Barrie

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent.
Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert

Here there was neither; ugly stories, disparaging remarks, on every hand.
Extract from : « Bob, Son of Battle » by Alfred Ollivant

It would be too belittling, too disparaging of self-respect.
Extract from : « In Her Own Right » by John Reed Scott

Coming here to be making an attack on me and badgering me and disparaging me.
Extract from : « The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays » by William B. Yeats

He summed up in a disparaging glance the background of indigent furniture.
Extract from : « The Touchstone » by Edith Wharton

I have no disposition to say disparaging things about the garden of annuals.
Extract from : « Amateur Gardencraft » by Eben E. Rexford

Hence we cannot say of wisdom, in a disparaging way, "it is only an idea."
Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant

Synonyms for disparaging

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