deprecative
Example Sentences
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He is the rarest kind of supersalesman: an uncomplicated man who is genuinely deprecative of himself and sold on his product.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Plowman was physically unable to utter the deprecative ejaculation which he knew should have been here inserted.
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
