Literary notes about denigrated (AI summary)
In literature, the term denigrated is often employed to cast aspersions and convey a tone of strong disapproval. In one instance, the word is used to describe ideas or actions as misleading, deceitful, and even sinister, thereby evoking a sense of moral condemnation [1]. In another context, it characterizes certain materials as harmful or ill-advised, specifically labeling substances as detrimental to earthworms [2].
- These they denigrated as misleading, guileful, sinister, contrived, deceitful, insidious, shuffling, covert, subversive.
— from A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Anthony Collins - Howard especially denigrated sulfate of ammonia and single superphosphate as earthworm poisons.
— from Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon
