- a variation of depreciatory.
depreciative
Example Sentences
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Many goldbugs cite the troubling depreciative nature of fiat paper currencies that aren't backed up by anything real.
From US News ● Jun. 22, 2016
As Katherine Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, points out the term “female” has had depreciative connotations for longer than one might expect.
From Time ● Apr. 19, 2016
Succeeding generations adopting their depreciative term have turned it into one of glory so that Gothic art is now in highest honor.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
With regard to the old monk's criticism it must be remembered that old age is always rather depreciative in criticism of the present and over-appreciative of what happened in the past se pueris.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
In all this he was neither proud nor depreciative of his people.
From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
