Usually means: Speaking poorly about someone else.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. disparagement: Merriam-Webster
  2. disparagement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disparagement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. disparagement: Vocabulary.com
  5. Disparagement, disparagement: Wordnik
  6. disparagement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. disparagement: Wiktionary
  8. disparagement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. disparagement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. disparagement: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. disparagement: Dictionary.com
  12. Disparagement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Disparagement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. disparagement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. disparagement: Rhymezone
  16. Disparagement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. disparagement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. disparagement: FreeDictionary.org
  19. disparagement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. disparagement: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. disparagement: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. disparagement: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. disparagement: Legal dictionary

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  1. disparagement: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disparagement)

▸ noun:  The act of disparaging, of belittling.

Similar:
dispraise, derogation, depreciation, belittlement, obtrectation, detraction, denigration, discredit, derision, sliming, more...

Opposite:
praise, approval, acclaim

Types:
criticism, condemnation, denunciation, castigation, reproach, reprimand, more...

Adjectives:
such, great, general, self, social, much, personal, undue, implied, systematic, least

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    gray,     black,     brown,     dark green,     dull red, more...

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Similar:
dispraise, derogation, depreciation, belittlement, obtrectation, detraction, denigration, discredit, derision, sliming, more...

Opposite:
praise, approval, acclaim

Types:
criticism, condemnation, denunciation, castigation, reproach, reprimand, more...

Adjectives:
such, great, general, self, social, much, personal, undue, implied, systematic, least

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark green,     dull red, more...



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