denigration

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denigration (countable and uncountable, plural denigrations)

  1. The act of making black; a blackening or defamation.
  2. An unfair criticism.
    • 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
      To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration.

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