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Significados de slighting en inglés
portugués
depredação 
Tending to diminish or disparage.
Términos relacionados
Sinónimos
Examples for "deprecating"
Examples for "deprecating"
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It's a bit of a problem, she laughed in a self-deprecating fashion.
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He's self-deprecating and quick-witted enough to keep the action breezing right along.
3
For all the shared self-deprecating glee, nobody really knows what to expect.
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It was self-deprecating, sometimes angry, often witty - and a great success.
5
At this point you might expect a self-deprecating tale of my pratfall.
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.
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Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
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He would dismiss her attempts in a most painful and belittling way.
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I'm completely uninterested in calling someone a hoe or belittling them-mosttimes.
4
He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them.
5
Trump is not the first president to suffer such a rapid belittling.
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Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.
2
But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence-surelynot.
3
They are just as timid, shy, and self-depreciatory as before entering.
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He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.
5
And she was very modest about Mr. Kendricks' attentions, and so self-depreciatory that, well-
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Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.
2
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
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But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
4
In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step....
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This was characteristic of him-everdepreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men's labours.
2
Spade made a depreciative mouth, raising his eyebrows.
3
He lifted a depreciative shoulder.
Uso de slighting en inglés
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The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it.
2
And the Bishop had treated her with a singular and slighting coldness.
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There has been mischief done by slighting criticism and by inconsiderate words.
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I had been beaten, degraded, and treated with slighting when I complained.
5
She made, with her small white hand, a slight and slighting gesture.
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I was not slighting you, I was simply shaken by the civil emergency.
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It does not matter; he should not have exasperated me by slighting me.
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Let not the knee-jerk deluge of plaudits seduce us into slighting Serena's struggle.
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I did wrong in slighting your injunction, and suffering Lilian to do so.
10
Some thought Fauci was slighting the president, leading to a vitriolic online reaction.
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Now I understood her slighting attitude towards my knowledge of birds.
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I shall not allow you to say slighting things of yourself.
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At first she could not believe they were wilfully slighting her.
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Not that Vincent had ever said a single slighting word about Mr. Crittenden.
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I was a commoner, but it wasn't me she was slighting.
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A tenderness that did not go very deep, a half-slighting compassion.
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