deprecative

Example Sentences

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He is the rarest kind of supersalesman: an uncomplicated man who is genuinely deprecative of himself and sold on his product.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

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

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

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

From Unwise Child by Garrett, Randall