Usually means: Showing disrespect through belittling comments.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word disparaging:

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  1. disparaging: Merriam-Webster
  2. disparaging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disparaging: Collins English Dictionary
  4. disparaging: Vocabulary.com
  5. Disparaging, disparaging: Wordnik
  6. disparaging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. disparaging: Wiktionary
  8. disparaging: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Disparaging, disparaging: Dictionary.com
  10. disparaging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Disparaging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. disparaging: Rhymezone
  13. disparaging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. disparaging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. disparaging: FreeDictionary.org
  16. disparaging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. disparaging: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. disparaging: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. disparaging: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Insulting, ridiculing.
▸ noun:  disparagement

Similar:
derogative, derogatory, uncomplimentary, opprobriate, disparageable, derisible, insultive, insultory, perjorative, vulgarizing, more...

Opposite:
complimentary

Types:
insulting, belittling, demeaning, derogatory, degrading, condescending, patronizing, scornful, more...

Phrases:
disparaging remark, opposite of disparaging, like a disparaging comment, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, such, single, self, slightest, whole, few, general

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     murky green,     drab olive,     dingy yellow, more...

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Similar:
derogative, derogatory, uncomplimentary, opprobriate, disparageable, derisible, insultive, insultory, perjorative, vulgarizing, more...

Opposite:
complimentary

Types:
insulting, belittling, demeaning, derogatory, degrading, condescending, patronizing, scornful, more...

Phrases:
disparaging remark, opposite of disparaging, like a disparaging comment, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, such, single, self, slightest, whole, few, general

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     murky green,     drab olive,     dingy yellow, more...



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