Tending to diminish or disparage.
1
Jim, at 60, has a careful, self-deprecatory way with him these days.
2
The confidential clerk shook his head in a deprecatory way, and smiled.
3
On Saturday Keegan made all the right self-deprecatory noises in the interviews.
4
A deprecatory smile flitted across the long, thin face of the attorney.
5
He went on talking in his self-effacing, deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
6
Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile.
7
The Israelite did not answer, nor seem to hear this deprecatory remonstrance.
8
And a deprecatory smile lighted up his face that was almost pathetic.
9
John Wingfield, Sr. broke into a laugh, which was deprecatory and metallic.
10
Weston looked at her gravely, and then made a little deprecatory gesture.
11
The young man wasn't intrinsically formidable- aratherlimp, deprecatory sort, he looked.
12
The Doge was blowing out his lips in an ado of deprecatory nonsense.
13
He shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips in a curiously deprecatory smile.
14
Than the terms in which it was expressed, nothing could be more deprecatory.
15
Mr. Steger lifted his eyes in a very pained, deprecatory way.
16
The man was deprecatory, and pointed contemptuously towards the heavens with a rake.
