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Значения термина depreciatory на английском

Tending to diminish or disparage.

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Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value.

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Examples for "deprecating"
Examples for "deprecating"
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It's a bit of a problem, she laughed in a self-deprecating fashion.
Beauty and the feast
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He's self-deprecating and quick-witted enough to keep the action breezing right along.
Reuters
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For all the shared self-deprecating glee, nobody really knows what to expect.
The Guardian
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It was self-deprecating, sometimes angry, often witty - and a great success.
The Guardian
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At this point you might expect a self-deprecating tale of my pratfall.
Independent.ie
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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
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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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Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
Reuters
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He would dismiss her attempts in a most painful and belittling way.
Caleb's crossing
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I'm completely uninterested in calling someone a hoe or belittling them-mosttimes.
Ebony
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He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them.
The Irish Times
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Trump is not the first president to suffer such a rapid belittling.
The Guardian
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The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it.
The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts
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And the Bishop had treated her with a singular and slighting coldness.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
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There has been mischief done by slighting criticism and by inconsiderate words.
A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916
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I had been beaten, degraded, and treated with slighting when I complained.
The Crayon Papers
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She made, with her small white hand, a slight and slighting gesture.
Lady Baltimore
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Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
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I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step....
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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This was characteristic of him-­everdepreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men's labours.
Fletcher of Madeley
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Spade made a depreciative mouth, raising his eyebrows.
The maltese falcon
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He lifted a depreciative shoulder.
The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama
Использование термина depreciatory на английском
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Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.
The Soul of the Far East
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But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence-surelynot.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2)
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They are just as timid, shy, and self-depreciatory as before entering.
Pushing to the Front
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He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.
Clayhanger
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And she was very modest about Mr. Kendricks' attentions, and so self-depreciatory that, well-
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga
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Since your affair with Naleenah, you know-he finished the sentence with a depreciatory shrug.
Where the Sun Swings North
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He does not mean anything depreciatory, but merely that-
Some Private Views
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Most of the self-depreciatory writers, by their very abnegation of the title, exalt the supreme poet.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
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And yet I have a word to say which may seem to be depreciatory of legislators.
Laws
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We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1...
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Nay, she would not listen to a depreciatory word on him from her cousin Henrietta Kirby-Levellier.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
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To the repetition he added with manifest sincerity, though also with a self-depreciatory movement of the head:
Through Russia
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The Inneses are not always so self-depreciatory.
The Circular Staircase
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You were alluding in a depreciatory manner to my head but it's your own head that fails.
The Tree of Appomattox
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Not a single depreciatory criticism was ventured.
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
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But against any such depreciatory remarks we have to set Chopin's high opinion of Zywny's teaching capability.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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