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: November 18, 2024
\DEN-ih-grayt\ verb
What It Means
To denigrate someone is to criticize them heavily and often unfairly. Denigrate can also mean "to make something seem less important or valuable."
// Her essay denigrates her mentor as a person and as a teacher.
// Though initially quick to denigrate the work that had been done, the group quickly realized that those efforts had laid a good foundation for what they themselves hoped to accomplish.
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