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What does denigrate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
  2. (transitive) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
  3. (rare) To blacken.
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I regard the continued campaign by some in the media to denigrate and besmirch the reputation of the Navy as quite outrageous.
They insult their opponents, they denigrate their arguments and they offer few facts.
Plamondon, a fierce polemicist, never shied away from using the press to promote his concepts about painting and to denigrate his rivals.
One is the use of a shared repudiation of romanticism to denigrate the Stuart cause.
If you make a mistake, you apologise. You do not denigrate someone else to get yourself out of a hole of your own making.
Looking back I think it's obvious they felt threatened and felt a need to denigrate my intellectual ability.

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