The act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
Reduction of the effective value or usefulness of an old item, which remains valid and usable as is, but which is no longer recommended and should be avoided in new usages.
Ещё 1 The General spread out his hands in his favourite gesture of deprecation .
2 Mrs. Fenton put up her hand in a pretty gesture of deprecation .
3 She saw his surprise, and extended her hands in deprecation and entreaty.
4 The boy threw up his thin hand with a gesture of deprecation .
5 He came and looked, but said nothing, lifting a hand in deprecation .
6 She lifted her eyes with a look of humble deprecation , and said:
7 Some counselled a public deprecation of his wrath, addressed to The Masque.
8 But this sense of wrongness and self - deprecation began to bring back bitterness.
9 Fine words, genteel deprecation , and magnanimous generality are the tricks of villany.
10 She brushed this aside with one of her light gestures of deprecation .
11 He murmured a sentence of half ironical deprecation , and Mr. Harcourt continued:-
12 No affected deprecation of my own abilities had any part is this.
13 She eschews grand schemes, preferring the virtues of modesty, patience, and self - deprecation .
14 He leaves the interview in a flurry of Johnsonian charm and self - deprecation .
15 She turned her charming eyes up to him without deprecation or concession.
16 It was capable of many interpretations-reproof ,angerat fate, polite disbelief, deprecation .
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