Sample Sentences for
deprecate
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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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    "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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    '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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    Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.  (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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    "He has a sort of self-deprecating humor naturally," says Haymitch.  (source)
    self-deprecating = modest or critical of oneself
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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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