How to Use denigrate in a Sentence

denigrate

verb

• Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher.
• No one is trying to denigrate the importance of a good education. We all know that it is crucial for success.
• And this is not to denigrate them, this is to deal with the truth.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025
• The point here is not to denigrate the work of content creators.
  — Ben Ritz, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• If that is the case, then don’t denigrate or too closely measure those skills.
  — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• None of this should be taken to denigrate Congress as a whole.
  — Christopher Miller, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024
• Not to denigrate the loss of life, but this might give us some hope from something terrible.
  — Jonathan Watts and Niko Kommenda, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
• In the past, the phrase has been used to denigrate people from other countries.
  — Melanie Eversley, Fortune, 24 July 2019
• That’s not to denigrate the others, which are wonderful in their own way.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
• The term poor white trash serves the same purpose—to dismiss, to deny, to denigrate.
  — Christian Livermore, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2022
• The term poor white trash serves the same purpose—to dismiss, to deny, to denigrate.
  — Longreads, 1 Oct. 2022
• The cheerleader had been denigrated for so long in teen movies.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2024
• Trump won’t do anything for you, other than denigrate and demean you.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
• By denigrating those who protest.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
• This isn't about denigrating the other players in the league.
  — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
• It wasn’t meant to denigrate Bjorn Borg or Paris or clay itself.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
• All of which might seem denigrating to Frida Kahlo the artist.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• And to be clear, this isn’t to denigrate either Barkley or Nelson.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• That's not to denigrate other teams that potentially could get in here.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• For a long time now the status of women has been denigrated by all governments.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• The Islam speech is a risky move for a president who has long denigrated the faith.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• And slang used to denigrate women—such as bop or for the streets—has proliferated.
  — Molly Langmuir, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
• This is not meant to denigrate Bhusri — quite the opposite.
  — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
• Which suggests that the wine industry will denigrate them — or just ignore them — at its own peril.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2021
• My favorite piece was a poster of a brick wall with graffiti that denigrates women through quotes from famous men through the ages.
  — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 14 Sep. 2017
• People who feel the need to denigrate entire cities need to work on their conversational skills.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
• And one of the more common ways to denigrate an opponent in such an argument is to play the purity card.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• This is not to denigrate one of the most dynamic and iconic performers ever.
  — Renée Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The Fake News Is going all out in order to demean and denigrate!
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2017
• This isn’t the first time that Cruz has denigrated peaceful protesters.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023