deprecate

“I therefore deprecate attempts to expound Wittgenstein’s thought as a finished thing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

A lot of people don’t know that world, so I’m going to have to introduce myself to them and then self-deprecate enough to earn the opportunity to then deprecate them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

Yet, many of those proclaiming their commitment to feeding the world take every opportunity to deprecate and obstruct the use of these proven safe technologies.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2022

He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” — a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2019

Don't deprecate your scheme, my lord; I consider it sublime.

From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Victor Hugo

He regularly deprecates himself with a dry wit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023

On the one hand, he deprecates the continuities between the twentieth-century cults and the more improvisatory autocrats of our day.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

However, it is specified that the Speaker "deprecates personal remarks about other Members".

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

Conversely, she is deeply interested in how contemporary culture feeds on and deprecates female vulnerability and pain.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2017

He deprecates his ability to write the life of the empress, to do which either Cicero would have to be recalled from Orcus or the presbyter Hieronymos from heaven.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld

“Blocking public posts makes no sense. It needs to be deprecated in favor of a stronger form of mute,” Mr. Musk tweeted.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

The current Meet app will be called “Meet Original,” and eventually deprecated.

From The Verge ● Jun. 1, 2022

For now, there is a lot of nonautomated, human effort involved in the process of pruning the internet encyclopedia from the Daily Mail and other deprecated sources.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2021

MD5 is strongly deprecated and this points to troubling software development security practices in Yahoo or its suppliers.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2016

The ordinary system of placing one pin at the back of the collar and one at either end is much to be deprecated.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert

Until the most recent episode, though, Alice’s entire personality has been scowls and deprecating hisses.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

His own company SpaceX, he now says, despite previously deprecating the moon, will focus on developing a “self-growing city” there “in less than 10 years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

“It’s so self deprecating without being pandering, you know?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

As early as 1989, Gaines had conceived of a show that would juxtapose powerful contemporary work by Black Americans with deprecating excerpts by art critics, highlighting the profound mismeasure of these artists’ achievements.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

“It just occurred to me you might be interested,” he would say with a deprecating little laugh whenever he produced a new fragment.

From "1984" by George Orwell