denigrate

criticize or belittle; cause to seem less serious; play down

Heard in 12 songs (7.1M+ combined views) — most famously in "Take No Prisoners" by Megadeth.

Updated August 17, 2026

Songs Featuring “denigrate

Megadeth - Take No Prisoners

Time: 0:53

The Panzers will (permeate them)

Break their pride (denigrate them)

And their people (retrograde them)

Megadeth - Take No Prisoners

The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery

Time: 0:44

Candy screen wrappers of silkscreen fantastic, requiring memories both lovely and guilt-free (Denigrate obtuse and active verbs, pronouns)

Lurid and lovely with twilight of ages, luscious and lovely and filthy with laughter (Skewer the sieve of the optical sewer)

The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery

Pet Shop Boys - I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing

Time: 1:38

It's a phase he's going through

Denigrate or speculate

On what I'm going through

Pet Shop Boys - I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing

Autoheart - Anniversary

Time: 1:35

German measles, mumps and whooping cough

Won't denigrate what we've got

When I'm in my darkest hour

Autoheart - Anniversary

Carcass - Heartwork

Time: 1:21

Dark reflections, degeneration

A canvas to paint, to denigrate

Dark reflections of dark foul light

Carcass - Heartwork

Bad Religion - Nothing to Dismay

Time: 0:38

The dissonance runs deep in me, resort to weak applause

Associate and denigrate the root without a cause

And just because the overwhelming odds are stacked away

Bad Religion - Nothing to Dismay

Garbage - 13 X Forever

Time: 2:15

And this one's for my sister

You dare to denigrate her

Don't look back

Garbage - 13 X Forever

Petit Biscuit - Shorter Than A Night

Time: 0:39

That's your type of guy

That denigrates you

I don't even know

Petit Biscuit - Shorter Than A Night

Aborted - The Obfuscate

Time: 2:53

Through your lies, I behold the spreading cancer

Stand in total awe of the denigrated

The obfuscate

Aborted - The Obfuscate

Colatura - John Wayne

Time: 1:21

We celebrate the masculine side

And denigrate, just laugh when they cry

And we're not set up to win

Colatura - John Wayne

Sego - FIRE AWAY

Time: 0:46

(Instrumental)

When there's nothing left to denigrate

Nothing left to denigrate

Sego - FIRE AWAY

Craig's Brother - Violent Faith

Time: 0:19

Ne'er to be found

They would denigrate what you call

The word of God to justify the ends

Craig's Brother - Violent Faith