0 past simple and past participle of disparage
1 to criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value him, her, or it:
Not only did the regime and its supporters (illogically) castigate the protesters for politicising sport, they disparaged their corporeality.
Regardless of the expression of compassion or contempt for the overweight, it is clear that they are disparaged and stigmatised.
Such research is valuable and will, undoubtedly, give status to languages which have all too often been disparaged.
Some commentators have disparaged the work of ethics committees as "super social work" and not philosophical ethics at all.
Its corollary was that claims that were unable to meet these strict criteria of validity were discounted or disparaged as 'unfounded'.
For a considerable period of time, musicians and music educators disparaged the gramophone.
On the other were the skeptics who sometimes openly disparaged science and at other times more cautiously expressed reservations about the scientific enterprise.
This potential took time to be realised, and the machine was initially disparaged and laughed at by the musical community at large.
