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Meanings of denigrate in inglês

português
denegrir
catalão
denigrar

Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.

      denegrir
      português
      minimizar
      catalão
      denigrar

      Cause to seem less serious; play down.

            minimizar
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            Examples for "minimize"
            Examples for "minimize"
            1
            An attorney can help you avoid this situation or minimize your risk.
            Reuters
            2
            Effective interventions are needed to minimize the public health implications of obesity.
            Pubmed
            3
            But simply trying to minimize the usage wasn't exactly solving the issue.
            Wired
            4
            These findings identify targets for social policy initiatives to minimize health disparities.
            Pubmed
            5
            Conclusions: The proposed thresholds minimize changes and keep coherence across anthropometric indicators.
            Pubmed
            1
            Attempts to belittle it are dangerous, allowing the tumour to spread unchecked.
            The Guardian
            2
            Despite what the R&A thought, I never set out to belittle them.
            The Guardian
            3
            The mood in our countrymen has been overmuch to belittle things American.
            Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography
            4
            They were not men to belittle the powers of the wonderful Baron.
            Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
            5
            But she did not belittle herself in any such tendernesses of regret.
            We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
            Usage of denigrate in inglês
            1
            For example, it's routine marketing practice for homeopaths to denigrate mainstream medicine.
            Bad science
            2
            It's a Chinese principle to contribute to, and not denigrate, potential markets.
            In the shadow of the cypress
            3
            None of that, of course, is to denigrate Eric and his ability.
            The Guardian
            4
            By seeking to ban and re-route loyalist parades and denigrate our culture.
            The Guardian
            5
            This is not to denigrate the former in favour of the latter.
            The Irish Times
            6
            And Mr Callinan personally tried to denigrate Sgt McCabe to several people.
            The Irish Times
            7
            I've never understood that kind of love, though I don't denigrate it.
            The art of mending: a novel
            8
            It also gave the Russian authorities a chance to denigrate the American press.
            The new yorker
            9
            He never allowed Andrew to denigrate himself or his ideas the least bit.
            Private life
            10
            Don't denigrate my gifts -or yours might disappear a second time tonight.'
            Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
            11
            But do not let me denigrate the place to an extreme.
            Night Shift
            12
            But Hecht had heard no one but Ghort himself denigrate Pinkus Ghort's intelligence.
            Surrender to the will of the night
            13
            Advocates of testing who denigrate cheating conveniently fail to acknowledge this.
            Wired
            14
            But they can also be used to knock people, to hurt, to denigrate.
            The Irish Times
            15
            I don't mean to denigrate the white working-class supporters of Trump and Ukip.
            The Guardian
            16
            Wanda hadn't set out to denigrate an ancient religion practiced by millions of people.
            Happiness key
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            Denigrate through the time