Definition of Disparage

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Disparage

To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

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Disparage Quotations

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Tacitus

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
Mira Sorvino

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
Vannevar Bush

Disparage Translations

disparage in German is verunglimpfen
disparage in Spanish is desacreditar

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