Tending to diminish or disparage.
Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value.
1 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.
4 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-
6 Since your affair with Naleenah, you know-he finished the sentence with a depreciatory shrug.
7 He does not mean anything depreciatory , but merely that-
8 Most of the self - depreciatory writers, by their very abnegation of the title, exalt the supreme poet.
9 And yet I have a word to say which may seem to be depreciatory of legislators.
10 We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.
11 Nay, she would not listen to a depreciatory word on him from her cousin Henrietta Kirby-Levellier.
12 To the repetition he added with manifest sincerity, though also with a self - depreciatory movement of the head:
13 The Inneses are not always so self - depreciatory .
14 You were alluding in a depreciatory manner to my head but it's your own head that fails.
15 Not a single depreciatory criticism was ventured.
16 But against any such depreciatory remarks we have to set Chopin's high opinion of Zywny's teaching capability.
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