deprecative

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.