Sample Sentences for
deprecate
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    She tried to deprecate his wrath with explanations, but it was useless.
    deprecate = diminish
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    "He has a sort of self-deprecating humor naturally," says Haymitch.  (source)
    self-deprecating = modest or critical of oneself
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    "I'm not trying to be self-deprecating," I say, "I just don't get it."  (source)
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    'It just occurred to me you might be interested,' he would say with a deprecating little laugh whenever he produced a new fragment.  (source)
    deprecating = treating as unimportant
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    Fielding deprecated confidences, but Sir Gilbert insisted on imparting them;  (source)
    deprecated = disapproved of
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    Marilla opened her lips to say she knew not what of apology or deprecation.  (source)
    deprecation = disapproval
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    "Oh, well," she said deprecatingly.†  (source)
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    I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues and to deprecate the vices of mankind.†  (source)
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    A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as...  (source)
    self-deprecating = treating as of low quality
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    It was deepest in regret, and broken off at the end of a joke or a statement of self-deprecation.  (source)
    self-deprecation = criticism or modesty
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    Stage Manager now looks over the audience, puffs his pipe, consults watch, deprecates late-comers, etc.  (source)
    deprecates = expresses disapproval of
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    This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was.†  (source)
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    "And it was his murderer speaking!" finished M. Bouc impressively. Poirot raised a deprecating hand. "Let us not go too fast."  (source)
    deprecating = disapproving
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