Definition of Denigrating

1. Adjective. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.


Definition of Denigrating

1. Verb. (present participle of denigrate) ¹

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Definition of Denigrating

1. denigrate [v] - See also: denigrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Denigrating

denibs
denied
denier
deniers
denies
deniest
denieth
denigrate
denigrated
denigrates
denigrating (current term)
denigration
denigrations
denigrative
denigrator
denigrators
denigratory
denim
denimed
denimlike
denims
denimwear
denisovite
denitrate
denitrated

Literary usage of Denigrating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"... mineral earths become black; being either fuliginous concretions in the earth, or suffering a scorch from denigrating principles in their formation. ..."

2. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and ...by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins (1658)
"... from denigrating Principles in their formation. Se men and other animals receive different ... as they partake of the fuliginous and denigrating humour. ..."

3. The "A. L. A." Index: An Index to General Literature, Biographical by American Library Association (1892)
"sensitiveness to,Folly of. ...Mathews. Lit. style, 10o. — The slyly-denigrating kind of Helps. Brevia. — Some principles of.... Symonds. Ess. 1:£4. ..."

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