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Definitions
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
Word origin
Derived from Latin dēnigrātus, the perfect passive participle of dēnigrō (“to blacken”) [see -ate (verb-forming suffix)], from dē- (“of; from”) + nigrō (“to blacken”) [from niger (“black”)]. Cognate with Middle English denigart(e) (“darkened, discolored”).
Used in a sentence
“What grand engines they were! Yet I have noticed a disposition on the part of quite a diversity of present-day commentators to denigrate those engines.”
“Although in public Soviet officials tend to denigrate the French electric locomotives imported recently, there is little doubt that lessons learnt from these engines will be incorporated in new Russian designs.”
“You have no right to denigrate people and things that you have no personal experience with.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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