(~s, disparaging, ~d)
If you ~ someone or something, you speak about them in a way which shows that you do not have a good opinion of them. (FORMAL)
...Larkin’s tendency to ~ literature.
VERB: V n
(~s, disparaging, ~d)
If you ~ someone or something, you speak about them in a way which shows that you do not have a good opinion of them. (FORMAL)
...Larkin’s tendency to ~ literature.
VERB: V n
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012