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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving to deprecate; deprecatory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving to deprecate; deprecatory.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Tending to deprecate; disapproving.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective given to expressing disapproval
  • adjective tending to diminish or disparage

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