Meanings of deprecatory laugh in anglès

Look at my own record,' Colonel Cathcart uttered a deprecatory laugh.

With a deprecatory laugh, he explained why he had come.

He even contrived a little deprecatory laugh.

He paused with a deprecatory laugh.

Bridget gave a deprecatory laugh.

Then he added, with what was meant to be a frank, deprecatory laugh, I suppose you see how it is.

Her head drooped a little lower, and the tell-tale color would come as she replied hesitatingly, and with a slight deprecatory laugh:

Ainley would have preferred to hear her story first; but he did not demur to her suggestion, and with a little deprecatory laugh he began.

"Oh!" said Rosamond, with a slight deprecatory laugh.

"Well," she said with a little deprecatory laugh, "it's a comfort not to be alone on a desert island."

"I have been trying to get up courage to show it to you all week," she said, with a deprecatory laugh.

"And you have perceived nothing that would seem to confirm the gossip current regarding your-enemy?" he asked, with a good-natured ,deprecatorylaugh.