Literary notes about Disparaged (AI summary)
In literature, the word disparaged is frequently employed to denote the act of demeaning or undervaluing someone or something, whether it be an individual’s character, an artistic achievement, or an established idea. Its usage ranges from subtle, implied criticism—as when literary works are unfavorably compared with revered models [1] or when personal traits and professions are denounced [2]—to overt statements that challenge accepted authority or convention [3, 4]. Authors often deploy the term to underscore complex interpersonal dynamics or societal prejudices, thereby deepening the reader’s insight into conflicts of taste and values [5, 6, 7].
- I have heard this brought into disparaging comparison with the metres of Tennyson; the poetry also disparaged in the same connection.
— from The Good Gray Poet, A Vindication by William Douglas O'Connor - It galled him to see the two human beings that had most innocently won his affections so grievously disparaged by a man whom he honored so much.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - But though ‘philosophy’ is not condemned, it is disparaged by the connexion in which it is placed.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - What Nietzsche disparaged, then, under the name of morality was not all morality, for he had an enthusiastic master-morality of his own to impose.
— from Egotism in German Philosophy by George Santayana - It was soon seen, too, that just as he irked her, so she disparaged him—an open road to others.
— from On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller - Alien to business wisdom, he believed that to set a price upon his work disparaged it.
— from Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gustave Flaubert - Courage is not disparaged by Christianity.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander
