"denigration" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a verb that means to criticize or belittle someone or something, and is typically used in a negative context. For example: "His scathing remarks about his opponent's policies were a clear act of denigration."
Once "average" fat people came on the scene, Farrell writes, "fat denigration" became more common: fat jokes proliferated in nineteenth-century magazines.
Perhaps this split personality has its origins in the restaurant's name: "bobo," an abbreviated portmanteau of "bourgeois" and "bohemian," is one of those terms which are used more often as denigration than as compliment.
This silence points to a sad reality: nonchalance toward the floods is only the latest example of Western hand-washing in a steady progression of abandonment and denigration of the Balkans that began in the early nineteen-nineties and continues to this day.
Female authors of the time may not have been publicly threatened with rape — although the variety of disrespect they might expect to receive was similarly dismissive, and not without an implication of sexual denigration.
Societies, tribes, and peoples grow more intelligent, richer, and more advanced as they pay attention to the troubled words of their authors — and, as we all know, the burning of books and the denigration of writers are both signs that dark and improvident times are upon us.
Such a full and intense life could not but be accompanied by rumor, adulation, denigration, and an endless stream of publications: press articles, pamphlets, hagiographies, attempts to appropriate Garibaldi's celebrity to this or that cause, to turn his adventures into myth and money.
There is incessant denigration & ridicule of opponents.
In a 1961 essay, Wright made this denigration of artistry explicit: "It should be unnecessary to say that gentleness and courage in dealing with a subject matter very close to life... are primarily matters of personal character; and that, where the character is lacking, no amount of literary skill can substitute for it".
"Princess" is certainly an instructive guide to that culture — though the level of acrimony aroused by its denigration might seem to us absurd.
The desire to rehabilitate Cleon inevitably results in a corresponding denigration of the peace party (with its "apparently limitless forbearance") and of the cautious policies recommended first by Pericles and then by Nicias, a figure for whom Kagan has particular disdain.
