deprecates
- present tense form of deprecate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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He regularly deprecates himself with a dry wit.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023
However, it is specified that the Speaker "deprecates personal remarks about other Members".
From BBC • Dec. 21, 2018
Though there is obviously truth in this approach, then and now, du Rivage deprecates it as much as it has ever been deprecated.
From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017
Conversely, she is deeply interested in how contemporary culture feeds on and deprecates female vulnerability and pain.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2017
To Hunt he criticizes some points in the last number of the Examiner, and especially, in his kind-hearted, well-conditioned way, deprecates a certain vicious allusion to grey hairs in an attack of Hazlitt upon Southey.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
