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

“Why? Because those algorithmic systems precisely are designed like a great, sort of giant spam filter to identify and deprecate and downgrade bad content.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021

He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” — a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2019

We deprecate such grovelling servility in the people as much as we pity the pride of the nobles.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne