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Deprecative

adjective
1.
Tending to diminish or disparage.  Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting.  "Managed a deprecating smile at the compliment" , "Deprecatory remarks about the book" , "A slighting remark"
2.
Given to expressing disapproval.





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"Deprecative" Quotes from Famous Books



... causes, aroused to the consciousness of its own strength. Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies. Not that it was at bottom ashamed of its existence, for slavery, like despotism of all sorts, is characteristically self-confident and proud; but because it had been allowed to grow up under protest in the midst of free institutions, and among a people conscious of the incongruity ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various


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