deprecative

Overly contemplative, fairly self-deprecative, and slightly worrisome and unsettled.

The One Where I Wish I Hadn't Woken Up kisobel 2005

How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative?

languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW. 2005

"You've got to accentuate the hortative, eliminate pejoratives, latch on to the deprecative, and don't mess with Mr. In-Between."

languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW. 2005

How did the mere hortative manage to exist alongside the deprecative?

languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW. 2005

Mike said something deprecative of his own efforts and took the package.

Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Mr. Plowman was physically unable to utter the deprecative ejaculation which he knew should have been here inserted.

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed ... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step ....

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922