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発音

• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

denigration (countable and uncountable, plural denigrations)

1. The act of making black; a blackening or defamation.
2. An unfair criticism.
   • 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

     To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration.

関連する語

• denigrate
• self-denigration

参考

• belittlement
• disparagement

アナグラム

• argentinoid, derationing