depreciative

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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

During the journey he related with an indifferent air his hunting exploits in this or that forest of the Peninsula, adopting a tone somewhat depreciative, as suited the case, toward hunting in Filipinas.

From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.

Next: ‘Aia’ is generally an accumulative yet depreciative termination.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

If Alessandro became execrated as "The Tyrant and Ravisher of Florence," Lorenzino was scouted as "A monster and a miracle," and his depreciative nickname underwent a new spelling—"Lorenzaccio,"— "Lorenzo the Terrible!"

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe