- Deprecate: to express strong disapproval of
- Derogatory: tending to lower in estimation; degrading
- Desecrate: to treat with disrespect
- Despot: monarch with unlimited power
- Deter: to dicourage; to keep someone from doing something
- Devious: not straightforward; lying; roundabout
- Devoid: entirely without; lacking
- Diatribe: a denunciation; bitter verbal attack
- Didactic: intended to instruct
- Diffuse: spread out; wordy