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Meanings of depreciatory in English

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value.

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Examples for "depreciating"
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Murphy, for example, does not want to invest in a depreciating asset.
Reuters
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Such is the view of the Empire on the depreciating side.
Travels in Morocco, Volume 2.
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And while it sits, your car is doing one thing: depreciating.
Wired
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Logically, we must begin by depreciating the ministers of this religion.
The History of a Lie: "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion"
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The rupee has been appreciating, while the yen has been depreciating.
Reuters
Usage of depreciatory in English
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Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.
The Soul of the Far East
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But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence-surelynot.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2)
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They are just as timid, shy, and self-depreciatory as before entering.
Pushing to the Front
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He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.
Clayhanger
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And she was very modest about Mr. Kendricks' attentions, and so self-depreciatory that, well-
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga
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Since your affair with Naleenah, you know-he finished the sentence with a depreciatory shrug.
Where the Sun Swings North
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He does not mean anything depreciatory, but merely that-
Some Private Views
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Most of the self-depreciatory writers, by their very abnegation of the title, exalt the supreme poet.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
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And yet I have a word to say which may seem to be depreciatory of legislators.
Laws
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We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1...
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Nay, she would not listen to a depreciatory word on him from her cousin Henrietta Kirby-Levellier.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
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To the repetition he added with manifest sincerity, though also with a self-depreciatory movement of the head:
Through Russia
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The Inneses are not always so self-depreciatory.
The Circular Staircase
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You were alluding in a depreciatory manner to my head but it's your own head that fails.
The Tree of Appomattox
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Not a single depreciatory criticism was ventured.
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
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But against any such depreciatory remarks we have to set Chopin's high opinion of Zywny's teaching capability.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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