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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb denigrate has 2 senses

• denigrate(v = verb.communication) belittle, derogate, minimize - cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence"
is one way to belittle, disparage, pick at
Derived forms noun denigration₃, noun denigration₁, adjective denigrative₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• denigrate(v = verb.communication) asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully - charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!"; "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
is one way to accuse, charge
Derived forms noun denigration₂, adjective denigratory₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

denigrate

asperse, bedarken, besmirch, bespatter, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, call names, calumniate, charcoal, cork, darken, defame, defile, deprecate, depreciate, despise, dinge, discommend, disdain, disparage, dispraise, disvalue, ebonize, engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, hold in contempt, ink, libel, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, put down, revile, ridicule, scandalize, shade, shadow, slander, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, stigmatize, sully, tarnish, tear down, throw mud at, traduce, vilify

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denigrate

Blackness

VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.

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