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Significats de deprecating en anglès

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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      Examples for "deprecatory"
      Examples for "deprecatory"
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      Jim, at 60, has a careful, self-deprecatory way with him these days.
      The Guardian
      2
      The confidential clerk shook his head in a deprecatory way, and smiled.
      Saved by the Lifeboat
      3
      On Saturday Keegan made all the right self-deprecatory noises in the interviews.
      The Guardian
      4
      A deprecatory smile flitted across the long, thin face of the attorney.
      Kennedy Square
      5
      He went on talking in his self-effacing, deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
      The Gray Dawn
      1
      Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
      Reuters
      2
      He would dismiss her attempts in a most painful and belittling way.
      Caleb's crossing
      3
      I'm completely uninterested in calling someone a hoe or belittling them-mosttimes.
      Ebony
      4
      He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Trump is not the first president to suffer such a rapid belittling.
      The Guardian
      1
      The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it.
      The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts
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      And the Bishop had treated her with a singular and slighting coldness.
      Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
      3
      There has been mischief done by slighting criticism and by inconsiderate words.
      A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916
      4
      I had been beaten, degraded, and treated with slighting when I complained.
      The Crayon Papers
      5
      She made, with her small white hand, a slight and slighting gesture.
      Lady Baltimore
      1
      Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.
      The Soul of the Far East
      2
      But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence-surelynot.
      The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2)
      3
      They are just as timid, shy, and self-depreciatory as before entering.
      Pushing to the Front
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      He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.
      Clayhanger
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      And she was very modest about Mr. Kendricks' attentions, and so self-depreciatory that, well-
      An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga
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      Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.
      Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
      2
      I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
      Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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      But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
      Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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      In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step....
      Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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      This was characteristic of him-­everdepreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men's labours.
      Fletcher of Madeley
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      Spade made a depreciative mouth, raising his eyebrows.
      The maltese falcon
      3
      He lifted a depreciative shoulder.
      The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama
      Ús de deprecating en anglès
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      It's a bit of a problem, she laughed in a self-deprecating fashion.
      Beauty and the feast
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      He's self-deprecating and quick-witted enough to keep the action breezing right along.
      Reuters
      3
      For all the shared self-deprecating glee, nobody really knows what to expect.
      The Guardian
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      It was self-deprecating, sometimes angry, often witty - and a great success.
      The Guardian
      5
      At this point you might expect a self-deprecating tale of my pratfall.
      Independent.ie
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      Looking for a self-deprecating tweet that proves you're also in the know?
      Wired
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      With typical self-deprecating cheek, Viz repeatedly put those words on the cover.
      The Irish Times
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      The image's quirkiness is in keeping with Belgium's self-deprecating, ironic, national style.
      The Irish Times
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      That was what her smile said in its soft and deprecating bitterness.
      Superseded
      10
      Self-deprecating, loud and funny, Poppy often uses comedy to hide her pain.
      News.com.au
      11
      Lenore, in the midst of her sobs, here made a deprecating gesture.
      Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
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      On earlier occasions he had followed Calvin in deprecating such sanguinary measures.
      A Short History of Scotland
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      He rose and started for the inner door with a deprecating smile.
      The Phantom Herd
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      He gave her a self-deprecating grin that made Kelly's heart flip over.
      Michael's discovery
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      He can be charmingly self-deprecating one moment, and repellently vain the next.
      The Guardian
      16
      He had a gentle deprecating eye, and the heart of a poet.
      Marcella
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