Decrying
Decrying adjective - Intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value.
Usage example: the usual decrying remarks about the clothes that the stars wore to the awards ceremony
Insulting and decrying are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Insulting" instead an adjective "Decrying".
Nearby Word: decried
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- offensive and decrying
- offensive and insulting
- opprobrious and decrying
- opprobrious and insulting
- scornful and decrying
- scornful and insulting
- contemptuous and decrying
- contemptuous and insulting
- deprecatory and decrying
- deprecatory and insulting
- disparaging and decrying
- disparaging and insulting
- pejorative and decrying
- pejorative and insulting
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