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Meanings of deprecative in English
Tending to diminish or disparage.
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Usage of deprecative in English
1
Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.
2
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
3
But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
4
In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step....
Frequent collocations
Deprecative through the time