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Meanings of deprecatory in English

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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      Examples for "deprecating"
      Examples for "deprecating"
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      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
      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
      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
      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 deprecatory in English
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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
      6
      Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile.
      Captain Blood
      7
      The Israelite did not answer, nor seem to hear this deprecatory remonstrance.
      Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I.
      8
      And a deprecatory smile lighted up his face that was almost pathetic.
      The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
      9
      John Wingfield, Sr. broke into a laugh, which was deprecatory and metallic.
      Over the Pass
      10
      Weston looked at her gravely, and then made a little deprecatory gesture.
      The Gold Trail
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      The young man wasn't intrinsically formidable- aratherlimp, deprecatory sort, he looked.
      The Real Adventure
      12
      The Doge was blowing out his lips in an ado of deprecatory nonsense.
      Over the Pass
      13
      He shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips in a curiously deprecatory smile.
      Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
      14
      Than the terms in which it was expressed, nothing could be more deprecatory.
      In a glass darkly
      15
      Mr. Steger lifted his eyes in a very pained, deprecatory way.
      The Titan
      16
      The man was deprecatory, and pointed contemptuously towards the heavens with a rake.
      Dross
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