deprecate
verb (used with object)
to express earnest disapproval of.
deprecates
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present tense formof deprecate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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He regularly deprecates himself with a dry wit.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023
On the one hand, he deprecates the continuities between the twentieth-century cults and the more improvisatory autocrats of our day.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
However, it is specified that the Speaker "deprecates personal remarks about other Members".
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018
Conversely, she is deeply interested in how contemporary culture feeds on and deprecates female vulnerability and pain.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2017
Strange and awful sacrifices of the past he deprecates, but he shows no reason why they should not continue.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
