deprecate
Example Sentences
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“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
This word is imprecise and is used universally to deprecate the person or group described.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
It’s a big lift, though: Consumers have Netflix and Facebook at their fingertips, and newsrooms that were cut in half are pivoting online and relying on digital metrics that deprecate routine civic coverage.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021
What I deprecate, is not any discriminating use of reverent criticism, but a clumsy confusion of points essentially different.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
Vocabulary lists containing deprecate
Frankenstein
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
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Grade 12, List 6
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