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Significados de deprecatory em inglês

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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Uso de deprecatory em inglês
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Jim, at 60, has a careful, self-deprecatory way with him these days.
The Guardian
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The confidential clerk shook his head in a deprecatory way, and smiled.
Saved by the Lifeboat
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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
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He went on talking in his self-effacing, deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
The Gray Dawn
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Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile.
Captain Blood
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The Israelite did not answer, nor seem to hear this deprecatory remonstrance.
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I.
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And a deprecatory smile lighted up his face that was almost pathetic.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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John Wingfield, Sr. broke into a laugh, which was deprecatory and metallic.
Over the Pass
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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
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The Doge was blowing out his lips in an ado of deprecatory nonsense.
Over the Pass
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He shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips in a curiously deprecatory smile.
Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
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Than the terms in which it was expressed, nothing could be more deprecatory.
In a glass darkly
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Mr. Steger lifted his eyes in a very pained, deprecatory way.
The Titan
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The man was deprecatory, and pointed contemptuously towards the heavens with a rake.
Dross
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