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

Some of the commentaries on Auenbrugger's work are not entirely depreciative, however.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

How good he was! he who was as scornfully depreciative of his own merits as if the bones of another Mr. Clarke had been bleaching in some distant cave in imperishable evidence of his guilt.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)