Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to depreciate or undervalue; undervaluing or underrating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective tending to
depreciate (in value etc.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
- adjective tending to diminish or disparage
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Examples
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That doesn't mean being depreciative of the political reality or insulting our politicians.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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They spoke in depreciative phrases of the present state of affairs in the Party, and about the methods of the leadership.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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The Chiemgauer, named after a region in Bavaria, is a depreciative currency.
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Why is is seemingly necessary to describe an opposition diehard as an 'escualido' (squalid) or some equally depreciative word for a pro-government supporter.
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More, though, what pulled me was that it would be a dialogue, something geared toward open-endedness, collaboration, and understanding – as opposed to the argumentative, close-minded, depreciative debates I am accustomed to (Berman handout).
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That doesn't mean being depreciative of the political reality or insulting our politicians.
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Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly unnatural character was invented there was no Lord Houghton in the House of Lords.
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And proud — with that inner self-depreciative pride which never let up on a man!
Flowering Wilderness 2004
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BUT it's a lot more used to as a depreciative, usually comic ... sort of like saying the "Poor slob" or the "sick puppy".
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He may be a courtier; his most depreciative critic never denies he is a fighter.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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