disparage

Reading aloud is often disparaged as "a special skill" which has "little transfer" to the key skill of silent reading.

Even idolatry met the needs of simple people and was not to be disparaged .

When the movement began the Democrats disparaged it as an "astroturf" phenomenon, an artificial protest stirred up by corporate interests.

India andits people, long disparaged by British racist jokes, are delighted to be calledequals by the great powers.

No one will not been disparaged in the world for ever. No one will be always highly praised, either.

The Academy Awards have also been disparaged for having a bias towards certain types of accomplishments and film genres.

Homeowners' withdrawal of equity to spend on consumer goods during the bubble has become widely disparaged as the "house as ATM" .

And he disparaged the rest: "I've found most have brains below average. "

As a bear, he is the ugly duckling and underdog who will be disparaged, dismissed and, eventually, triumphant .

"They really disparaged women in ways that are cruel and heartbreaking, " Parkin said.

If we look at the history of medicine, we see that many inventions were condemned and disparaged by bioconservatives.

And concubines were highly thought of, they weren't disparaged because of their calling and they were valuable members of the ships company.

Orwell disparaged these borrowings too.

I asked Haggis why he had aligned himself with a religion that so many have disparaged.

He always aggrandized one and disparaged the other.

His behavior disparaged the whole family.

In a statement to the New York Times' Brian Stelter, Clemente disparaged the University of Maryland, where the study was done.