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Damaging vs Disparaging - What's the difference?

damaging | disparaging |

As adjectives the difference between damaging and disparaging

is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while disparaging is insulting, ridiculing.

As verbs the difference between damaging and disparaging

is that damaging is while disparaging is .

As a noun disparaging is

disparagement.

damaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)

    • disparaging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Insulting, ridiculing.
    • The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.

    Synonyms

    * degrading

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • disparagement
  • * Thomas Hardy
    • I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways Men with a wintry sneer, and women with tart disparagings .