depreciatory

Example Sentences

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I did a lot of self depreciatory jokes aimed at myself, aimed at my colour because I had seen a lot of other black comedians do it.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2016

Johnston had chartered a private plane, was waiting on the platform at every major stop, issuing depreciatory statements.

From Time Magazine Archive

The depreciatory involves the exorcist entreating God � "God, come down and bless this person."

From Time Magazine Archive

But at the core of it are the exorcism prayers themselves, which are composed of the imperative and the depreciatory.

From Time Magazine Archive

The word was originally used in this sense, and not with the depreciatory meaning of "magician," as at present.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James