Disparaging vs Spurious - What's the difference?
disparaging | spurious |
Insulting, ridiculing.
disparagement
* Thomas Hardy
false, not authentic, not genuine
* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' '' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
(archaic) bastardly, illegitimate
* Milton
As adjectives the difference between disparaging and spurious
is that disparaging is insulting, ridiculing while spurious is false, not authentic, not genuine.As a verb disparaging
is .As a noun disparaging
is disparagement.disparaging
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.
Synonyms
* degradingVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways Men with a wintry sneer, and women with tart disparagings .
spurious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.
- her spurious firstborn