1.   And villagers walking past gave the gathering a wide berth, and spat in disgust with disparaging comments.

2.   HARRY Mead is entitled to his opinion and I think we might have suffered his first disparaging comment on Bowes Museum and its founders without protest.

3.   And when an ex-Patriot is quoted making a disparaging comment, Carroll declines to respond, as if that player never existed.

4.   At a public workout last week in L.A. to promote the Trinidad-Reid card, Rijker confronted Martin about disparaging comments Martin had made about her.

5.   Bailey also asked Fuhrman about a meeting in which a defense witness, Kathleen Bell, asserts Fuhrman made a disparaging comment about African-Americans.

6.   A disparaging comment later confirms my hunch.

7.   After a series of disparaging comments were made about Strickland, the woman apparently called Strickland back and played the comments, which she had tape-recorded.

8.   De La Hoya has said he will never fight Vargas because of disparaging comments the junior middleweight champ has made publicly.

9.   Disparaging comments in e-mail intended to be read and tossed have found a number of unhappy routes into broader public dissemination.

10.   During a conference call this morning, Stewart said that he did not believe the disparaging comments factored into his dismissal.