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You should not deprecate her efforts.deprecate = treat as unimportant
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I want to acknowledge her contribution without deprecating that of others.deprecating = treating as unimportant
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She always gives me that deprecating look when I arrive late.deprecating = disapproving
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She tried to deprecate his wrath with explanations, but it was useless.deprecate = diminish
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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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"He has a sort of self-deprecating humor naturally," says Haymitch. (source)self-deprecating = modest or critical of oneself
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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 = disapprovalstandard 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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Total strangers saw fit to deprecate him, with the result that he was stricken early with a guilty fear of people and an obsequious impulse to apologize to society for the fact that he was not Henry Fonda.† (source)
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He shrugged deprecatingly.† (source)
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"I'm not trying to be self-deprecating," I say, "I just don't get it." (source)self-deprecating = modest or critical of oneself
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"I used to do it myself when I was your age. But of course that was a long, long time ago." He laughed, gesturing in self-deprecation with long, thin fingers. (source)self-deprecation = 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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