Both Uses
deprecate
in
Murder On The Orient Express
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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."Chpt 3.1 *deprecating = disapproving - The valet's tone was deprecating.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(deprecate) to diminish or treat something as unimportant or of low quality; or to express disapproval
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The form, deprecating, is sometimes used as a short form of self-deprecating -- meaning to belittle oneself or one's own ideas. Deprecated is also used to describe a software or aspects of it as obsolete.