Disparaging

Adjective

 * 1) Insulting, ridiculing.
 * The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.

Synonyms

 * degrading

Verb
disparaging



Thesaurus
abusive, aweless, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disadvantageous, discourteous, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, judgmental, libelous, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, uncomplimentary, underrating, undervaluing, vilifying, vituperative

Adjective

 * Finnish: halveksiva, väheksyvä
 * French: péjoratif
 * German: abfällig, abschätzig, abwertend, geringschätzig, herabsetzend, verunglimpfend


 * Russian: уничижительный, пренебрежительный
 * Turkish: aşağlayıcı, hor gören, kötüleyici, küçümseyici