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Meanings of deprecative in English

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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              Examples for "deprecating"
              Examples for "deprecating"
              1
              It's a bit of a problem, she laughed in a self-deprecating fashion.
              Beauty and the feast
              2
              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
              4
              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
              1
              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
              2
              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
              4
              He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.
              Clayhanger
              5
              And she was very modest about Mr. Kendricks' attentions, and so self-depreciatory that, well-
              An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga
              1
              This was characteristic of him-­everdepreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men's labours.
              Fletcher of Madeley
              2
              Spade made a depreciative mouth, raising his eyebrows.
              The maltese falcon
              3
              He lifted a depreciative shoulder.
              The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama
              Usage of deprecative in English
              1
              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
              3
              But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
              Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
              4
              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
              Deprecative through the time