Object

• effort: I do not wish to denigrate the efforts of the 1990 or 1996 teams.

• importance: Professionals should not underestimate or denigrate the importance their visits play in maintaining psychological well-being for these patients.

Used with why or when

• what: If your game denigrates what is " old hat " , it won't last when it becomes old hat itself.

Modifying Another Word

• often: Tourists are often denigrated for having difficulty in locating the ' University ' .

• systematically: Ernaux is concerned to expose the ways in which working-class life and cultural preferences have been systematically denigrated and denied validity.

• unfairly: Or maybe in the inevitable letters from fans of the game who feel it's being unfairly denigrated.

• not: Note, I do not denigrate the good intentions of those who gave birth to these abject social policy failures.

• n't: My plea is only this: do n't denigrate the lowly sponge.