deprecating

Example Sentences

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He throws effort into this record, whining, yammering, imprecating, imitating himself fabulously.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2011

Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I drew nearer they seemed to forget their agonies, and joined in a glad, wild chorus of imprecating welcome to me.

From The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia by Arnold, Allan

The gentleman who performed for us the part of Chorus, gave us to wit, that they were lamenting the fall of Algiers, and imprecating maledictions on the head of the French.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

And sullenly, with stealthy gestures of menace, they retreated towards the entrance; and gabbling more loudly as they approached it, seemed to be imprecating vengeance on those who cast them out.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.