disparagingly
1.speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur.
2.16.Speaking disparagingly of people in front of their friends.
3.A word or group of words used to describe or evaluate, often disparagingly.
4.Deep down, we sense that we speak, disparagingly, of a "simpleton. " Nobody wants to be guilty of "simplistic " thinking.
5.A South Sea Islander, especially one brought to Australia as a laborer in the19th and early20th centuries. Often used disparagingly.
6.No man can speak disparagingly of woman if he realizes that no one has come into this world without a mother.
7.But a suspiciously large number of the new species have turned up in the limited group of big, showy animals known somewhat disparagingly as “charismatic megafauna”—in other words the species that the public, as opposed to the experts, care about.
