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deprecative
adjective as in disparaging
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Example Sentences
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads.
She merely rocked a trifle faster and turned a smile which she strove to make amusedly deprecative upon her hostess.
The gray man turned his opened palm outwards with a deprecative motion which was not English at all.
Mike said something deprecative of his own efforts and took the package.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deprecative, such as: belittling, critical, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, and depreciatory.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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