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depreciation
(Accounting) An allowance made for a loss in value of property.
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  1. (Accounting) An allowance made for a loss in value of property.
  2. A decrease in value of property through wear, deterioration, or obsolescence
  3. (Accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.
backbiting
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
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  1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
aspersion
A sprinkling, especially with holy water.
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  1. A sprinkling, especially with holy water.
  2. A damaging or disparaging remark; slander; innuendo
  3. The act of slandering or libeling; defaming.
censure
An expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism.
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  1. An expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism.
  2. An official condemnation, reprimand, or expression of adverse criticism, usually by a legislative or other formal body, of the conduct of one of its members or of someone whose behavior it monitors. An official condemnation, reprimand, or expression of adverse criticism, usually by a legislative or other formal body, of the conduct of one of its members or of someone whose behavior it monitors.
  3. A judgment or resolution condemning a person for misconduct; specif., an official expression of disapproval passed by a legislature
derision
The act of ridiculing or laughing at someone or something.
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  1. The act of ridiculing or laughing at someone or something.
  2. A state of being derided:
  3. A deriding or being derided; contempt or ridicule
depreciation
(Accounting) An allowance made for a loss in value of property.
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  1. (Accounting) An allowance made for a loss in value of property.
  2. A decrease in value of property through wear, deterioration, or obsolescence
  3. (Accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.
derogation
In legislation, partially repealing or limiting the scope of common law or prior statutes. In legislation, partially repealing or limiting the scope of common law or prior statutes.
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  1. In legislation, partially repealing or limiting the scope of common law or prior statutes. In legislation, partially repealing or limiting the scope of common law or prior statutes.
  2. A lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
  3. Disparagement; detraction
detraction
The act of detracting or taking away.
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  1. The act of detracting or taking away.
  2. A derogatory or damaging comment on a person's character or reputation; disparagement:
  3. A malicious discrediting of someone's character, accomplishments, etc., as by revealing hidden faults or by slander
minimization
The act of lowering something to its smallest value or extent.
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  1. The act of lowering something to its smallest value or extent.
  2. (Mathematics) The process of finding the minimum value of a function.
Find another word for disparagement. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for disparagement, like: depreciation, belittlement, backbiting, aspersion, censure, derision, lie, blame, objection, ridicule and belittlement.

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  • Those traditions or doctrines which were most uncongenial to the modern world were placed in strong relief; and the disparagement of the individual intellect was extended to the disparagement of scientific research itself " (Wilfrid Ward, Life of W.

  • It would be difficult to draw any comparison between German and Italian humanists to the disparagement of the former.

  • It is no disparagement to point out that the recognition he obtained was due not only to his published work, but also to his success as a teacher.

  • From the latter part of the 17th century charges of Antinomianism have frequently been directed against Calvinists, on the ground of their disparagement of "deadly doing" and of "legal preaching."

  • (i.) There are traces of earlier discussions about the Gospels, both in disparagement of the Synoptics as compared with St John, and in criticism of the latter as differing from the former.

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