0 past simple and past participle of denigrate
1 to say that someone or something is not good or important:
Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
People's "pathological" skills can be accepted as adaptive strengths instead of denigrated as immature remnants of early childhood.
Socrates, for one, praised the reflective life of the mind (his injunction: "know thyself ") and denigrated the body (and its emotions) as an interference.
Liberal aesthetic theory in the 1950s denigrated the eye in favour of the word.
Villagers rarely asked questions, and when they did, these questions were often dismissed or the questioner denigrated.
It is clear that while earlier generations of historians have denigrated past achievements, this intellectual smugness can no longer be sustained.
And, in some contexts, they feel respected and affirmed when others address them in their language and denigrated when others impose their own linguistic preferences.
Given these constraints, their achievements can be seen to have been remarkable, and, rather than denigrated, should be applauded.
