depreciative
- a variation of depreciatory.
Example Sentences
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Many goldbugs cite the troubling depreciative nature of fiat paper currencies that aren't backed up by anything real.
From US News ● Jun. 22, 2016
As Katherine Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, points out the term “female” has had depreciative connotations for longer than one might expect.
From Time ● Apr. 19, 2016
I merely wish to point out a perfectly legitimate and even important signification of the terms high and low, quite apart from their popular employment as laudatory or depreciative epithets.
From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert
Because it is a remarkable fact that in the days when that depreciative and profoundly unnatural character was invented there was no Lord Houghton in the House of Lords.
From Speeches: Literary and Social by Dickens, Charles
Countess Anna asks of Count Treurenberg, in a rather depreciative tone, just before they reach their gondola.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip
