All denigration synonyms

noun denigration

• belittlement — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
• defamation — Defamation is the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
• character assassination — A character assassination is a deliberate attempt to destroy someone's reputation, especially by criticizing them in an unfair and dishonest way when they are not present.
• deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
• derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
• aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
• ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
• detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
• put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
• disparagement — the act of disparaging.
• scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
• slander — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
• libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
• calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
• traducement — to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
• calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
• vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
• depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
• abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
• stigmatization — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
• defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
• libeling — Law. defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures. the act or crime of publishing it. a formal written declaration or statement, as one containing the allegations of a plaintiff or the grounds of a charge.