Tending to diminish or disparage.
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.
6 Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile.
7 The Israelite did not answer, nor seem to hear this deprecatory remonstrance.
8 And a deprecatory smile lighted up his face that was almost pathetic.
9 John Wingfield, Sr. broke into a laugh, which was deprecatory and metallic.
10 Weston looked at her gravely, and then made a little deprecatory gesture.
11 The young man wasn't intrinsically formidable- aratherlimp, deprecatory sort, he looked.
12 The Doge was blowing out his lips in an ado of deprecatory nonsense.
13 He shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips in a curiously deprecatory smile.
14 Than the terms in which it was expressed, nothing could be more deprecatory .
15 Mr. Steger lifted his eyes in a very pained, deprecatory way.
16 The man was deprecatory , and pointed contemptuously towards the heavens with a rake.
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