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Meanings of deprecatory in inglés

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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Usage of deprecatory in inglés
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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
11
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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