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- Dictionarydenigrate/ˈdɛnɪɡreɪt/
verb
- 1. criticize unfairly; disparage: "doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country"
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Nov 19, 2014 · 2. The word "denigrate" is not racist. Furthermore, you are misusing the word "racist". The word "racist" means "someone who believes that one race is superior to another". The word "denigrate" simply means "to demean" with no implication as to who is being demeaned or why.
Aug 14, 2018 · Denigrate often adds a note of contempt: "elitist music critics who denigrated jazz by portraying it as inferior to the classical tradition" (Tyler Stovall). Belittle means to reduce someone or something to a lowly status, often in an arrogant or hurtful manner: "those who would mock and belittle others simply on the basis of their physical appearance" (Tyler Dilts).
However, I doubt that denigrate will fall victim to this. In the first place, it doesn't sound very much like nigger or any derivative. Furthermore, you have to be fairly conversant in Latin to realize that the -nigr- part of denigrate has anything to do with "black", which prevents the association between the words from becoming strong or widespread enough to incur the taboo.
Nov 13, 2020 · More recently, in the latter half of the 20th century, denigrate was still used to express a sort of disparagement but in the context of diplomacy and science (perhaps reflecting a more modern, secularized society).
Oct 16, 2011 · For at least a year and half, I read "deprecated" as "depreciated", even when writing it down myself, I would spell it as "depreciated", even though pretty much every time I read it, it was spelt
Aug 15, 2018 · @SteveWoods I wouldn't call them derivatives. It's very hard for me to explain. To discredit or denigrate (derogatory) someone is likely to be offensive, but so is not saying "thank you", and it's not derogatory, it's simply offensive for another reason. Vulgar can mean rude or inappropriate, which may also offend, hence making it offensive.
Mar 31, 2014 · I was just thinking about someone I went to school with who had a penchant for putting people down, and I was trying to think of a word that describes this, but couldn’t find it.
I understand that the word “precious” in the following quote of Maureen Dowd’s article “Heart of Darkness” (NYT, March 20) literally means “2. valuable or important and not to be wasted” as defined...
Feb 11, 2014 · It has been extensively used in US vernacular to mean a violent criminal. To the extent that the term thug has a current association with race, it may date back to the African-American hip-hop group Thug Life that issued albums (including a song entitled Thug LIfe) beginning in the early 1990s.
Jun 11, 2014 · I prefer the expression carping to hyper-critical as it's more negative. A hyper-critical person could be interpreted as someone who is a perfectionist, acting in a demanding or exacting manner, whereas carping suggests someone who constantly complains, is never satisfied and finds fault in everything you do.
