J. D. Vance

We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

American Author

Jennifer Chiaverini

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

American Artist

Greg Boyle

We need not wait for further, well-placed home video cameras to see that low-intensity warfare is being waged against low-income minorities. We need only listen to the voices of the poor; they can testify that they are dehumanized, disparaged, and despised by the police.

American Clergyman

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

American Judge

Rudolf Steiner

We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

Austrian Philosopher

Gustave Flaubert

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

French Novelist

Ian Mckellen

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

English Actor

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

American Philosopher

Zal Batmanglij

I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.

American Director

Claire Saffitz

Turkey burgers receive a fair amount of disparagement, and it's not unfounded.

American Editor

Using 'disparage' implies a critical and negative opinion.

Negative Connotation

Disparage can be more subtle than direct insults, hinting disrespect.

Subtly Insulting

It often targets people's character or work rather than factual mistakes.

Often Personal

It can reflect or impact one's self-esteem when self-directed.

Self-Esteem Impact

Sometimes used to express false modesty or undue humility.

Humility or Modesty

Used to imply something is less valuable or important than it is.

Undermining Value

 disparaged this form of democracy as being anarchic and run by fools. But today the word has such positive associations, that vastly different regimes claim to embody it. At the same time, some share Plato's skepticism about the wisdom of crowds.

What did democracy...

 the first and second steps Mallory who disdained Canadians and that every opportunity was disparaging to wheeler and he never even acknowledged that wheeler had found the key to the mountain in fact he famously lied twice

Wade Davis: Into the...

 In this immensity of life and biodiversity, we occupy a rather unremarkable position. Homo sapiens. The last of our kind. And though I don't really want to disparage at all