deprecation

Example Sentences

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The proof of that usually comes in “Leader Remarks,” when the two parties’ bosses come out to utter the first complaints, accusations and deprecations of a long day.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2011

The slo-mo is so slow you would need to be not only an expert lip-reader, but to speed up the footage slightly to make out exactly what deprecations were being issued.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011

But they boast a sort of tribal flesh; their pretenses and deprecations and denials are bequests from a world of hard competition to a world of fun.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other, whose village it was, full-stopped the story with grunts or deprecations.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly

I must write to Fanny and tell her, in spite of her deprecations, just how perfect and rare and priceless a fact I know her existence in this Universe eternally to be.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William