deprecate

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

It is easy to deprecate the single phrase inscribed atop the entrance to our courthouse by conceptualizing it as a mere platitude.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 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

However they might deprecate her mistaken violence, it was impossible but that both her hearers should feel compassion for her.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

He regularly deprecates himself with a dry wit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023

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

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

Though there is obviously truth in this approach, then and now, du Rivage deprecates it as much as it has ever been deprecated.

From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017

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

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2017

He that witnesses its influence on another with most horror, and most fervently deprecates its ravages, is not therefore more safe.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

“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

There’s no official word from Google as to why it’s deprecated the feature, so we may never know for sure the reasoning behind Google abandoning it to its ever-increasing product graveyard.

From The Verge ● Nov. 5, 2021

Older’s story shows us the uncomfortable disconnect between treating Shristi’s robot, Naneen, like a cherished caregiver and treating it like a deprecated piece of hardware.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2019

In an article for the national tabloid Expressen, Engdahl deprecated the vulgarity of his opponents in the academy, and called them “a clique of bad losers … who plotted to wound and humiliate Katarina Frostenson”.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018

Our opponents have imported into it a degree of bitterness, have acted with a churlish insolence, which makes any personal contact a thing absolutely to be deprecated.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

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 niche, yes, but the folks interested in that niche are passionate about it, despite the deprecating memes.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 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

"Funny, self deprecating, sharp, charming, strong, honest and a fantastic listener. His legacy is enormous."

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2023

There was a rustle and a slight, deprecating cough from the direction of the woods.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt