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Definition of Denigratory
1. Adjective. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.
Similar to: Harmful
Derivative terms: Calumny, Calumny, Defame, Denigrate, Denigrate, Libel, Libel, Slander, Slander
Definition of Denigratory
1. Adjective. Tending to denigrate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Denigratory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Denigratory
Literary usage of Denigratory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of by Horace Wemyss Smith (1880)
"... Such an effusion was malignant and vindictive; denigratory simply. In law it
was libellous, and if Franklin had himself printed it in his lifetime ..."
2. Abandoned to the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages by Kathleen Hunt (1999)
"These were usually expressed in negative, denigratory terms such as 171 Human
Rights Watch interview, Dr. Vsevolod R\ ..."
3. Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Helps (1871)
"Courage, not safe to pronounce upon a man's, 23. Criticism, denigratory, 64-66;
how to bear it, 171-173; domestic, 173 ; of government, ..."
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