depreciatory
adjective
tending to depreciate.
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
During the journey he related with an indifferent air his hunting exploits in this or that forest of the Peninsula, adopting a tone somewhat depreciative, as suited the case, toward hunting in Filipinas.
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
This was characteristic of him—ever depreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men’s labours.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Brigadier Margaret Allen
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 George Herbert Palmer
