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denigration - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Noun
denigration (countable and uncountable, plural denigrations)
- The act of making black; a blackening or defamation.
- An unfair criticism.
- ✤ To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration.1
Etymology
By surface analysis, denigrate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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Link to original Footnotes
1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the “T14s””, in Railway Magazine, page 57: ↩
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