Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expressing disapproval or criticism.
- adjective Mildly disparaging or uncomplimentary, especially of oneself.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving or intended to deprecate or avert some threatened evil or action; characterized by entreaty or protest intended to avert something evil or painful.
- noun A deprecating speech or act.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
- adjective Serving to deprecate; expressing a low opinion of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That
deprecates ;apologetic ordisparaging
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to diminish or disparage
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the handsome and distinguished-looking bridegroom stood before the altar awaiting the entrance of his bride, it were almost sacrilege to utter a word deprecatory or otherwise.
Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour
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A flaccid, unwholesome-looking hand was raised slowly, in a kind of deprecatory gesture; then allowed to fall again upon the belly where it lay, with the five fingers, round and chalky-white, extended like the rays of a starfish.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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A gravely sedate demeanour would have seemed the more fitting facial expression for his age and the generally accepted nature of his calling, -- a kind of deprecatory toleration of the sunshine as part of the universal 'vanity' of mundane things, -- or a condescending consciousness of the bursting apple-blossoms within his reach as a kind of inferior earthy circumstance which could neither be altered nor avoided.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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A gravely sedate demeanour would have seemed the more fitting facial expression for his age and the generally accepted nature of his calling, -- a kind of deprecatory toleration of the sunshine as part of the universal 'vanity' of mundane things, -- or a condescending consciousness of the bursting apple-blossoms within his reach as a kind of inferior earthy circumstance which could neither be altered nor avoided.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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A gravely sedate demeanour would have seemed the more fitting facial expression for his age and the generally accepted nature of his calling, -- a kind of deprecatory toleration of the sunshine as part of the universal 'vanity' of mundane things, -- or a condescending consciousness of the bursting apple-blossoms within his reach as a kind of inferior earthy circumstance which could neither be altered nor avoided.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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What put that idea into your head? "replied my father, with a kind of deprecatory smile.
Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk Oliver Optic 1859
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Ninety-nine times out of 100 when I have heard Mexicans use the word 'gringo' it's in a way that is deprecatory or worse, usually preceded by 'pinche' -- in other words, designed to be taken as an offense.
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At a nod from him, the semicircle seated itself on the manienie grass, and with further deprecatory smiles waited his pleasure.
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Ninety-nine times out of 100 when I have heard Mexicans use the word 'gringo' it's in a way that is deprecatory or worse, usually preceded by 'pinche' -- in other words, designed to be taken as an offense.
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Ninety-nine times out of 100 when I have heard Mexicans use the word 'gringo' it's in a way that is deprecatory or worse, usually preceded by 'pinche' -- in other words, designed to be taken as an offense.
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