Example Sentences

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Now let nobody suppose that I am deprecating a change.

From Mushrooms on the Moor by Boreham, Frank

Do not understand that I am deprecating these pleasures.

From The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon by Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)

That's the very thing they have done and which I am deprecating; and you suggest that I should follow their example.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.