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Denigrating

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v. Present participle of denigrate.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

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adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

Word Usage

"Still, there are signs of discontent: More than a million women took to the streets over the weekend to protest what they called the denigrating treatment of women."

Equivalent

harmful

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

calumniatory calumnious defamatory denigrative libellous

Verb Stem

denigrate