Definition of "disparaging"

While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles some of the questions head on.

2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47

I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways […] Men with a wintry sneer, and women with tart disparagings.

1896, Thomas Hardy, Wessex Heights