The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABASE , but the solution may also be DISS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Denigrate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABASE | 42 % | 5 |
| SMEAR | 17 % | 5 |
| ASPERSE | 17 % | 7 |
| DISS | 8 % | 4 |
| RAP | 8 % | 3 |
| BADMOUTH | 8 % | 8 |
Why may DISS be the right solution?
The word "DISS" is a slang term that means to denigrate or disrespect someone. It is commonly used in informal language to describe speaking negatively about someone or something.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Denigrate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- calumniate
- defame
- belittle
- slander
- derogate
- minimize
- sully
- besmirch
- smirch
- smear
- asperse
- vilify
Crossword Answer definitions
ABASE verb- To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABASE
More clues leading to the result SMEAR
- Vilify during a campaign
- Libel
- Mess up the makeup
- Bad mouth
- Talk shit about
- ___ campaign
- Tarnish
- Apply Vaseline
- Besmirch
- Blurry mess
More clues leading to the result ASPERSE
- Spread false charges against
- Spread slander
- Cast slander at
- Denigrate
- Denigrate through insinuation
- Slander
- Bad-mouth
- Sully
- Baptize
- Malign
More clues leading to the result DISS
- Insulting type of track
- Engage in trash talk
- Trash talk
- Treat rudely
- ___ track (rap track intended to insult)
- Insult
- Ph.D. hurdle
- Thesis: Abbr.
- Grass of Mediterranean region.
- Ph.D. ms.
More clues leading to the result RAP
- Criminal charge
- Pop music style
- Snoop Doggy Dogg's music
- Certain mod music
- Gangsta __
- Hammer's genre
- Kind of sheet or session
- Knock
- Music genre
- Chat with Hammer