The language of disparagement is simply more vivid than the language of praise. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference
Of course, it was a standard remark of disparagement, meaning that a given person had picayune magic. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
As the divorce case dragged on, the judge's concern about family "disparagement" appeared to deepen. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
The preposition be with which this verb is construed involves the idea of disparagement of the object involved (K.S. 212. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
"disparagement" by his ex-wife's family was continuing. From Wordnik.com. [News4Jax.com - Local News] Reference
"disparagement" of Wooten by his ex-wife's family and said it could lead him to transfer custody of their children if it continued. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
"Have you anything to say in disparagement of Avis?". From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
We say not this to the disparagement of Turner's genius. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
It is no disparagement of human friendship to admit this. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
But they are never treated with disparagement or contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
It is no disparagement of the work of the last Constitutional. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
No one dared utter a word in disparagement of Abraham Lincoln. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Now Carroll is receiving some disparagement on his own Facebook page. From Wordnik.com. [Pete Carroll Criticized On Facebook During 'Respect' Discussion] Reference
I have said in the Preface that nothing is known to Earle's disparagement. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Kirby gazed with critical disparagement at such Union forces as were visible. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
This is no disparagement of the limitations of able and saintly men in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
It is no disparagement of you or of myself to say that no boy could appreciate you. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
"I will not hear any disparagement of your ways and your knowledge," interrupted Mrs. Morell. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
We may note the different tone which his disparagement assumes towards these men respectively. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
He had felt no little elated at defeating Bloxam, and did not relish any disparagement of his victory. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
In his most recent disparagement of President Obama, Mr. Beck took direct aim at Mr. Obama's religious beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Brauchli: Mormon Baptism of Dead Jews and Other Theological Nonsense] Reference
Robert Schumann himself wrote that the vocabulary of disparagement has a million more words than that of praise. From Wordnik.com. [Insults And Praise On The Classical Campaign] Reference
Violin-playing, notwithstanding the disparagement which this accomplishment received from different notabilities. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
To use the past as an instrument for furthering present purposes implies neither veneration nor disparagement of it. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
But it is no disparagement to the importance of those truths, if we acknowledge that they do not appear in our Creeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
In styling the tendencies which we have thus briefly reviewed non-Christian, we have had no intention of disparagement. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
So it is no disparagement to this larger view if it does not come to us through what the world calls respectable channels. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
It is to this habit of unmeaning self-disparagement that we are to attribute many of those phrases which have been thought in. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
But it's early to form any such opinions, and out of place to draw any comparisons in disparagement of any of our colleagues. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
I'll let the reader decide if his answers are as forthcoming as his uninformed disparagement of one who was simply there to help. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Penn: Third Person Once Removed] Reference
It is no disparagement of his efforts to congratulate ourselves that we never had to put our lessons to the test of stern reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
And notwithstanding all that those two rascals said in her disparagement, my soul laughs them to utter scorn, telling them they lie. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
The recent disparagement of intellectualism is probably a reaction against the extreme absolutism of German idealism which, beginning with. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
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